Olaf Hering <o...@aepfle.de> writes: > Right now qemu does appearently just emulate a graphics card (Cirrus for > example), but not an attached monitor/display. The result is confusion > in the guest OS. > > The current DRM drivers in upstream Linux seem to default to VESA modes. > These are either provided by qemu, or Xorg uses a fixed internal list. > As a result the VM window is 1280x960. Much too large for my native > display. > > It seems qemu does not provide a virtual display with valid EDID data. > If it would start doing that, the host admin could force a certain > display size. Ideally also with proper DPI data. > > Any idea if thats possible to implement?
Not an expert in this area, but I can't see why it would be impossible. Patches welcome.
