On 06/03/2010 10:50 PM, Gilboa Davara wrote: > On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 18:51 +0200, Christoph A. wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm running a kvm guest (F13) on a F13 host but didn't managed to get a >> reasonable screen resolution in the guest OS. I used cirrus and vga but >> was not able to get a resolution higher then 800x600. >> I tried also to manually add some resolutions to the xorg.conf but >> without success. >> >> Would be great if I could get at least a resolution of 1280x960. >> Is someone using kvm-qemu with decent resolutions? >> >> The majority of sites recommended vga for high resolutions but it didn't >> work out so far. >> >> kind regards, >> Christoph > > I'm not using libvirt (using qemu directly instead), but you could > switching to vesa VGA by switching the graphics card to "std" instead of > "cirrus logic". > > Be warned that -vga std is somewhat buggier (but far more flexible). As I wrote I tried also the vga driver but without success, ...but today an upgrade broke my kvm setup, so I have to fix that before trying again to set the resolution... kind regards, Christoph OT: In case someone is also having troubles after updating, error message when starting VM: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 799, in run_domain vm.startup() File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/domain.py", line 1256, in startup self._backend.create() File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 317, in create if ret == -1: raise libvirtError ('virDomainCreate() failed', dom=self) libvirtError: internal error Process exited while reading console log output: char device redirected to /dev/pts/4 Could not initialize SDL - exiting -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines