[Qemu-devel] Re: [ kvm-Bugs-2907597 ] qemu vnc server clips at 2560x1600

[Avi Kivity]

On 01/11/2010 03:53 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Anthony, can you take a look at this?  Seems like a serious issue, 
> > could find nothing obvious in vnc.c.
>
>
> VNC_MAX_WIDTH and VNC_MAX_HEIGHT in vnc.h are currently defined to 
> 2048.  We do dirty tracking with a bitmap and that bitmap is currently 
> a fixed size.
>
> 2048 is bigger than any physical screen that I know of so I assume 
> this is a multiple monitor scenario.  Long term, I think exposing 
> multiple monitors to the guest is a better approach for this kind of 
> functionality.
>
> Since these resolutions for a single screen don't really exist, this 
> is largely an untested path within the guest.

Google suggests such screens do exist, and -vga std (at least in 
qemu-kvm) supports them.

I've asked the reporter to play with VNC_MAX_WIDTH.

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