Questions about virtualization

[Ivan Krstić]

Chris Ball wrote:
>    > We would like to preconfigure qemu, bochs, vmware player or another
>    > emulator to mimic the XO hardware as closely as possible. We're
>    > thinking of how to emulate the mesh networking, sound, videocamera,
>    > and performance constraints.
> 
> I don't know of a way to emulate a 1200x900 resolution screen in an
> emulator (because there's no such VESA mode?), which seems like a 
> non-starter for developing applications to me.  Does anyone know 
> how we could get around this?

Adding Matthew Allum, author of Xephyr, to CC. Matthew, any thoughts?

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