Hi All, Recently I have been playing around with various virtualization products to fit my current needs. I have used qemu and kqemu casually many times in the past, but never used it for anything real serious. At this point I need to be able to run win2k in a virutal machine. Everything works perfectly except video. Here is what I need:
I am running an nvidia card in dual head twinview mode. For those without an nvidia card, twinview mode gives the os a logical view of the combined displays, so blits are not required when dragging from on screen to the other, etc. The upshot is, my full screen mode is 2560x1024. While that mode is quite common these days, I don't see it as one of the offered vesa modes available in qemu with either the VGA or Cirrus hardware. So, what I have tried: I tried the normal video mode registry hack to set the video mode manually, but discovered neither supported virtual cards had enough ram to support the required mode, so I found in the qemu source where the video ram was specified and changed it to 32M. It looks like the cirrus card is fixed at 4M because of hardware design limitations... but the standard VGA card should work, right? At this point, I was able to set much higher video modes, but the display defaulted to one of the standard vesa modes. If I set a non-standard mode in the registry, windows would select a standard mode that fit most closely to what I specified. It didn't seem possible to specify 2560x1024. Is this a problem with the default VGA driver in windows 2000? Or is this something that could be fixed in the qemu emulated hardware? I tried XP, as it is supposed to have a better VGA driver, but I could not download the driver. Networking doesn't seem to work in XP (another problem). Qemu version 0.9.0 Kqemu: 1.3.0pre9 Host: Ubuntu 6.10 i386. If the solution is simple I would be happy to look at the code and take a stab at it. I don't have much time to spend on it, but pointers in the right direction would help. Cheers, James -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ James Pellow, President Alent Design Solutions www.alentdesignsolutions.com 509-522-5010 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~