On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 06:58:59PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
I tried switching from plex/bochs vgabios to seavgabios, and made this switch for qemu-1.7 package in debian, at least to see how it goes.
And almost immediately got a complain that with new qemu (which uses seavgabios not vgabios), windows VMs don't support 1920x1080 resolutions anymore.
Where do you get your "lgpl vgabios" from? The standard QEMU repo ( git://git.qemu.org/vgabios.git ) doesn't have these modes either.
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
The logic in the patch in the link above is already in SeaVGABIOS.
-Kevin