This is certainly nice. After not trying anything concerning virtualization or emulation for quite a while I was actually impressed with the whole kvm project. I think the worst part currently is interaction with the guest os, I don't really like it grabbing my keyboard and mouse and resolutions where not near my native screen resolutions. Now when I run it fullscreen it's just like I booted windows, except for my music still playing in the background :) . I was wondering if there's also a vga driver for xp to go along with the --std-vga option. Previously xp reported the graphics card as cirrus, now it doesn't know what to make of it... Would be nice if it did, even though it works great this way too!

I only get a maximun of 1600x1200.
I'm using KVM command and not qemu as I couldn't get the acceleration to work.Is that why I only get 1600x1200?

My ubuntu res is 2560x1600 so I'd love to get that.

My command is..
kvm -M pc -soundhw all -m 1024 -std-vga -hda xp.img

Using qemu I still only got 1600x1200.

Thanks

Hi,

I'm having the same problem as ~art. I also have a hardware resolution of 2560x1600, and with -std-vga, XP only allows me to set resolutions up to 1600x1200 and 1680x1050 (and both work).

I'm using the kvm distributed with Ubuntu 8.04. kvm -h tells me it is "QEMU PC emulator version 0.9.1 (kvm-62), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard".

Thanks.

No, in the window where you can set the resolution for XP (the one that you show above), the rightmost position of the scrollbar corresponds to 1680x1050. I cannot set it any higher than that.

I'm running: (from My computer -> Properties)
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002
Service Pack 2

I'll try that first thing tomorrow (it's dinner time right now, and I have other plans for the evening). Thanks for your time.

I downloaded kvm-71.tar.gz from sourceforge, compiled it, and it works! I now have XP running in 2560x1600, and fullscreen also works fine.

I'm still using it with the kernel modules distributed with Ubuntu's kernel and I notice no problems with that.

Thanks for your help.

Thanks all,
My experience is exactly the same as Vincent's. Ie ubuntu, XP sp2, 1600x1200 or 1600x10050. I'll download the latest package and compile that.

Compile something...omg...I'll have to learn something new.

Thanks everyone, I look forward to 1600x2560 goodness.

The new resolutions work really well, but upon using the --std-vga option my Suspend/Hibernate button from the XP Shutdown menu has been greyed out, so I cannot hibernate anymore!! I guess this is due to the fact that there is now no video driver installed. Does anybody have any idea to share about this? I tried the VBE driver from bearwindows, but it didn't fix it.

That resolution is not supported by the std-vga driver. You can probably request it on the developer mailing list.

Stefan,

Unfortunately the highest resolution you can get currently is 2560x1600.

I'll add my recent experience which might help someone, since I haven't googled anything that would solve my problem, just this page which helped me to move in the right direction.
The problem was that I couldn't get my Windows XP SP3 guest system to run in resolution higher than 1600x1200. When I have downloaded and compiled the latest version of vgabios from http://www.nongnu.org/vgabios/ , the guest was running in a fallback mode of 800x600x4
I have downloaded and compiled (with --prefix=/usr) qemu-kvm 0.13.0, but when I removed the ubuntu qemu-kvm package and installed the newly compiled one, virt-manager was unable to run the virtual machine and was returning some error. So I have installed the ubuntu qemu-kvm package again (version 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.3) without uninstalling the 0.13.0, at this point I was about to give up, but tried to run the guest again and voila, I was able to set the resolution of up to 2560x1600... I can't really understand what the problem was, but it works now :-)
Also previously I have also compiled and installed Seabios 0.6.1, which did not help but I left it there (in /usr/share/seabios) so I'm not sure if that helped to solve the issue eventually.
The host system is running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

It's good that they have thought about that. It was about time they did something. Thanks for sharing. I bow down humbly in the presecne of such greatness.