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

Gerd Hoffmann kraxel at redhat.com
Tue Sep 14 07:03:12 PDT 2010


On 09/14/10 12:05, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 22:14 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> 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.)

This is correct (and this will not change as the memory needs to be 
reserved for vga mode too).

cheers,
   Gerd



More information about the Spice-devel mailing list