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

[Gerd Hoffmann]

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