Re: [libvirt] Can't scale XP on remote
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 04:02:05PM -0400, sean darcy wrote:
sean darcy wrote:
>Just starting out with an XP guest on Fedora 11 kvm. I'm using
>virt-manager to connect from a laptop.
>
>Server:
>kernel-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.x86_64
>qemu-*-0.10.50-6.kvm86.fc11.x86_64
>libvirt-0.6.4-2.fc11.x86_64
>
>On the laptop:
>virt-manager-0.7.0-5.fc11.i586
>libvirt-0.6.2-11.fc11.i586
>
>The console comes, and XP runs fine. But, screen is scaled too large
>vertically for my laptop screen which is 1280x800. Only with fullscreen
>can I see the bottom menu bar. I would have assumed I could change the
>size of the screen (even if not the aspect ratio), but I can't.
>
>Am I doing something wrong, or is this just The Way Things Are?
>
Is this the wrong list for this question? Or is there some FM I should Read?
The logic in the virt-manager and virt-viewer UI for scaling isn't really
behaving nicely at this time. I have work in progress for virt-viewer to
make it do a much better job in particular maintaining aspect ratio while
scaling. Once that's working I'll do same to virt-manager
In the mean time best solution is to reduce the resolutiuon in the XP
guest itself, which will be honoured by the virt-manager window
Daniel
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