I agree with the summary change to "pc 1.0 machine type regressed with
-vga vmware":
And confirm via two new VM desktop guest installations. One was on a
14.04 server host upgraded from from a 12.04 server. The other was on a
new 14.04 server. In both cases the machine type was forced on the
command line:
sudo virt-install -n desk_tt3 -r 8192 --disk
path=/media/newhd/desk_tt3.img,bus=virtio,size=50 -c trusty-desktop-
amd64-20140417.iso --machine pc-1.0 --network bridge=br0,model=virtio
--video=vmvga --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole -v --vcpus=4
They both had the low graphics issue upon re-boot after the installation
completed.
I agree with the recommendation to just change the machine type and this
bug being set to "won't fix".
About the cirrus driver:
I was using "virsh edit bla" to change the driver, something I do often.
I made a new VM desktop guest from scratch with this command (which will
use the cirrus driver, by default):
sudo virt-install -n desk_tt4 -r 8192 --disk
path=/home/doug/img/desk_tt4.img,bus=virtio,size=50 -c trusty-desktop-
amd64-20140417.iso --machine pc-1.0 --network bridge=br0,model=virtio
--graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole -v --vcpus=4
And it worked fine. (Except that the cirrus driver has never worked
quite right for me, and the display size options are not as extensive as
the vmvga driver.) I'll come back to this if needed.
I disagree about bumping the memory size as a fix:
For many months (13.10 days) I have always been bumping the memory for
the video, as I calculated that it should be more. Typically, I have
this in the .xml file:
<model type='vmvga' vram='16384' heads='1'/>
And I even ran this just now:
<model type='vmvga' vram='32768' heads='1'/>
Question:
what file or location that contains this stuff mentioned above? (so that I can
look at the bigger context):
},{\
.driver = "VGA",\
.property = "vgamem_mb",\
.value = stringify(8),\
},{\
.driver = "vmware-svga",\
.property = "vgamem_mb",\
.value = stringify(8)
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