[Spice-devel] [PATCH xf86-video-qxl 1/2] Change default virtual size to 1920x1080

[Alexander Larsson]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 22:14 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> With the old default virtual size of 1024x768, using higher resolutions
> is not possible without an xorg.conf. Since the default now a days is
> to not have an xorg.conf, this is sort of unfortunate.
> 
> This patch makes these higher resolutions available by making the
> default virtual size 1920x1080, while keeping the default resolution
> used when none is specified through xorg.conf at 1024x786, so that
> the spice client window won't be way too large for smaller screens
> by default.
> 
> This change does come at the prize of using 5MB more memory, but that
> seems like a reasonable price to pay to give us parity wrt supported
> resolutions with the windows driver. Also this is a must have to allow
> the to be written Linux agent to change the guest resolution to match
> the client machines one when running in auto fullscreen mode.

Does this really use 5 megs more memory? I don't think we ever use the
framebuffer part of the qxl device for anything but the primary surface,
so the 5 megs are unused right now. (unless i'm missing something.)


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