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Add vga option (cirrus / std / vmware / qxl) #303

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obbcth opened this issue Apr 20, 2020 · 4 comments
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Add vga option (cirrus / std / vmware / qxl) #303

obbcth opened this issue Apr 20, 2020 · 4 comments
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obbcth commented Apr 20, 2020

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@osy osy added the enhancement New feature or request label May 8, 2020
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osy commented May 8, 2020

@obbcth Can you explain why? What will this add?

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obbcth commented May 9, 2020

Use cirrus in old windows (like 9x, 2000) can choose high colors without having to install vga drivers.
There is no essential/direct reason to add this option, but with this we can choose more vga cards.

@osy osy added this to the v1.0 RC3 milestone May 11, 2020
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osy commented May 18, 2020

Moving this to post 1.0 because it would require adding new config option and it will take some thinking to not make it confusing for the user (i.e. if they don't select QXL and try to use SPICE tools and find that it doesn't work). Since it seems like you can install VGA drivers, this isn't high priority.

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conath commented Nov 21, 2020

FWIW you can go to VM settings -> QEMU and add the line -vga cirrus to the end to switch to cirrus graphics. It seems like the last -vga option in the list is the one used by QEMU. This isn't a solution though as it's not user friendly. Here's a list of many QEMU graphics options; note I don't think all of them are supported in UTM.

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@osy osy removed the low priority Will not be actively worked on label Sep 4, 2021
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