Questions about virtualization

[Adam Jackson]

On Tue, 2007-01-23 at 04:54 +0000, Chris Ball wrote:
> Hi, thanks for thinking about this.
> 
>    > 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?

Nonsense.  The VESA BIOS is allowed to advertise any modes it likes.
You can control this in an emulator, because you're implementing the
BIOS; but the vesa driver in X doesn't get to choose outside the set the
BIOS gives it.

- ajax