On 16/02/10 00:35, Kenni Lund wrote:
To archive what you want, eg. to have other resolutions in your VM, you can try emulate other graphics cards. You probably have a Cirrus Logic graphics card emulated in your VM now, try with some of the others, if I remember correctly "Standard VGA" or "Vesa" will allow you to use more (higher) resolutions.
You're quite correct that you need to use a different emulated graphics card to get higher resolutions, but even then you will (with a linux guest) need to write an xorg.conf by hand to get those modes as there is no emulated monitor to respond to DDC queries from X with a list of available resolutions so it defaults to only allowing a couple of low resolution modes.
Windows guests do seem to allow a wider choice of resolutions by default when there is no monitor available to respond to DDC queries.
Tom