Bug 966226 - virtual machine screen resolution too large with kernel mode setting (KMS)
Summary: virtual machine screen resolution too large with kernel mode setting (KMS)
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 928225
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: qemu
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Fedora Virtualization Maintainers
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-05-22 19:59 UTC by Jeff Bastian
Modified: 2013-12-17 18:12 UTC (History)
16 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-12-17 18:12:14 UTC
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Description Jeff Bastian 2013-05-22 19:59:14 UTC
Description of problem:
The latest kernel supports KMS (Kernel Mode Setting) in virtual machines, but it's setting a very large resolution -- 1280x1024 -- and the display doesn't fit on my physical monitor -- 1680x1050 -- when you account for the title bar and menu bar and tool bar on the virt-viewer window.  I either have to scale the display (which looks ugly) or scroll around a lot.

This was particularly problematic yesterday when testing the Anaconda text mode for the Fedora 19 Test Days.
    https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2013-05-21_AnacondaNewUI_Followup

I found a workaround by adding
    drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware=edid/1024x768.bin
to the kernel command line options to force 1024x768, but it would be nice if this happened automatically, or if there was a way to select the virtual screen size in the machine settings.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-1.0.5.1-1.fc19.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.4.1-3.fc19.x86_64
virt-manager-0.10.0-0.4.gitb68faac8.fc19.noarch
kernel-3.9.3-301.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. install Fedora 19 to a virtual machine in text mode

Actual results:
virtual screen is set to 1280x1024 which doesn't fit (or just barely fits) on most monitors with a height of 1050 or 1080, and certainly doesn't fit on smaller screens

Expected results:
start with a lower resolution, or allow a way to easily select a resolution for the virtual machine

Additional info:

Comment 1 Jeff Bastian 2013-05-22 23:26:10 UTC
It appears to only be a problem with VNC.

I switched to Spice and it chose a more sane resolution.

Comment 2 Cole Robinson 2013-12-17 18:12:14 UTC
This is a dupe of another bug. Summary is that while the issue persists in F18, it's unlikely to be fixed there given pending end-of-life. F19 however doesn't have this problem for me if the guest is fully up to date, regardless of cirrus vs. qxl or vnc vs spice

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 928225 ***


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