29.11.2013 19:59, Michael Tokarev wrote: []
And while at it, there's another bugreport against vgabios package in Debian, see http://bugs.debian.org/685097 . It looks like windows8 isn't happy with vgabios-provided modes and does not let to change resolution at all, sticking at 1024x768. That bugreport points to a patchset, http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-05/msg00260.html (this is just one patch from it), which has been applied to xen copy of vgabios to solve exactly this issue with win8, and reportedly it works there. It looks like something similar should be done in seavgabios too, since with it, win8 guest is also stuck at the same resolution.
Hmm, last time I tried resolution switching in win8 worked just fine with seavgabios. Can you double-check?
I just installed a fresh win8 VM, and it is indeed stuck with 1024x768, with the "screen resolution" combo-box grayed out in the appropriate control panel screen, -- there's no way to choose any other resolution.
It was a false alarm really. I'm sorry for this.
After numerous experiments with different vga bioses, I had a leftover file named vgabios-stdvga.bin in the current directory. It was some version of plex/bochs vgabios. And that one didn't work. When I actually removed it and tried with seavgabios, it worked correctly and it lets me to change resolutions.
It doesn't have 1920x1024 resolution still, but it is a significantly better behavour.
So the win8 part of my question goes away :)
Thanks,
/mjt