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Daniel P. Berrangé de72c4b7cd edid: set default resolution to 1280x800 (WXGA)
Currently QEMU defaults to a resolution of 1024x768 when exposing EDID
info to the guest OS. The EDID default info is important as this will
influence what resolution many guest OS will configure the screen with
on boot. It can also potentially influence what resolution the firmware
will configure the screen with, though until very recently EDK2 would
not handle EDID info.

One important thing to bear in mind is that the default graphics card
driver provided by Windows will leave the display set to whatever
resolution was enabled by the firmware on boot. Even if sufficient
VRAM is available, the resolution can't be changed without installing
new drivers. IOW, the default resolution choice is quite important
for usability of Windows.

Modern real world monitor hardware for desktop/laptop has supported
resolutions higher than 1024x768 for a long time now, perhaps as long
as 15+ years. There are quite a wide variety of native resolutions in
use today, however, and in wide screen form factors the height may not
be all that tall.

None the less, it is considered that there is scope for making the
QEMU default resolution slightly larger.

In considering what possible new default could be suitable, choices
considered were 1280x720 (720p), 1280x800 (WXGA) and 1280x1024 (SXGA).

In many ways, vertical space is the most important, and so 720p was
discarded due to loosing vertical space, despite being 25% wider.

The SXGA resolution would be good, but when taking into account
window titlebars/toolbars and window manager desktop UI, this might
be a little too tall for some users to fit the guest on their physical
montior.

This patch thus suggests a modest change to 1280x800 (WXGA). This
only consumes 1 MB per colour channel, allowing double buffered
framebuffer in 8 MB of VRAM. Width wise this is 25% larger than
QEMU's current default, but height wise this only adds 5%, so the
difference isn't massive on the QEMU side.

Overall there doesn't appear to be a compelling reason to stick
with 1024x768 resolution.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211129140508.1745130-1-berrange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
2022-01-13 10:59:16 +01:00
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accel exec/memop: Adding signedness to quad definitions 2022-01-08 15:46:10 +10:00
audio dsoundaudio: fix crackling audio recordings 2022-01-13 10:47:52 +01:00
authz configure, meson: convert pam detection to meson 2021-06-25 10:54:10 +02:00
backends docs: move D-Bus VMState documentation to source XML 2021-12-21 10:50:21 +04:00
block blockjob: drop BlockJob.blk field 2021-12-28 15:18:59 +01:00
bsd-user bsd-user/freebsd/target_os_ucontext.h: Require TARGET_*CONTEXT_SIZE 2022-01-07 22:58:51 -07:00
capstone@f8b1b83301 capstone: Update to upstream "next" branch 2020-10-03 04:23:14 -05:00
chardev chardev/char-socket: tcp_chr_sync_read: don't clobber errno 2022-01-07 05:19:55 -05:00
common-user common-user: Really fix i386 calls to safe_syscall_set_errno_tail 2022-01-04 21:14:23 -08:00
configs hw/display: Rename VGA_ISA_MM -> VGA_MMIO 2022-01-13 10:58:54 +01:00
contrib plugins/cache: make L2 emulation optional through args 2021-11-04 10:32:01 +00:00
crypto crypto: add gnutls pbkdf provider 2021-07-14 14:15:52 +01:00
disas target/riscv: setup everything for rv64 to support rv128 execution 2022-01-08 15:46:10 +10:00
docs docs: reSTify virtio-balloon-stats documentation and move to docs/interop 2022-01-07 19:30:13 -05:00
dtc@b6910bec11 dtc: Update to version 1.6.1 2021-10-14 08:08:11 +02:00
dump dump: Remove is_zero_page() 2021-12-15 10:31:42 +01:00
ebpf ebpf: only include in system emulators 2021-09-17 16:07:52 +08:00
fpu softfloat: Add float64r32 arithmetic routines 2021-12-17 17:57:15 +01:00
fsdev 9pfs: make V9fsPath usable via P9Array API 2021-10-27 14:45:22 +02:00
gdb-xml target/arm: Advertise MVE to gdb when present 2021-11-02 14:14:55 -04:00
hw edid: set default resolution to 1280x800 (WXGA) 2022-01-13 10:59:16 +01:00
include edid: set default resolution to 1280x800 (WXGA) 2022-01-13 10:59:16 +01:00
io build-sys: add HAVE_IPPROTO_MPTCP 2021-09-30 15:30:25 +02:00
libdecnumber libdecnumber: Introduce decNumberIntegralToInt128 2021-11-09 10:32:52 +11:00
linux-headers linux-headers: update to 5.16-rc1 2021-12-10 09:47:18 +01:00
linux-user linux-user pull request 20220111 2022-01-12 11:51:47 +00:00
meson@12f9f04ba0 meson: bump submodule to 0.59.3 2021-11-02 15:57:28 +01:00
migration failover: Silence warning messages during qtest 2021-12-22 08:12:45 +01:00
monitor ui/dbus: add p2p=on/off option 2021-12-21 10:50:22 +04:00
nbd nbd/client-connection: improve error message of cancelled attempt 2021-12-21 14:52:19 +01:00
net vdpa: Add dummy receive callback 2021-11-28 17:03:52 -05:00
pc-bios roms/opensbi: Upgrade from v0.9 to v1.0 2022-01-08 15:46:09 +10:00
plugins plugins/meson.build: fix linker issue with weird paths 2021-11-29 15:13:07 +00:00
po po: update turkish translation 2021-10-22 18:07:30 +02:00
python python: update type hints for mypy 0.930 2022-01-10 18:22:59 -05:00
qapi hw/smbios: Use qapi for SmbiosEntryPointType 2022-01-07 05:19:55 -05:00
qga qapi: Add spaces after symbol declaration for consistency 2021-10-02 07:33:41 +02:00
qobject qobject: braces {} are necessary for all arms of this statement 2021-02-04 13:20:29 +01:00
qom monitor: Fix find_device_state() for IDs containing slashes 2021-11-10 06:14:51 +01:00
replay replay: notify CPU on event 2021-04-01 10:37:20 +02:00
roms roms/opensbi: Upgrade from v0.9 to v1.0 2022-01-08 15:46:09 +10:00
scripts simplebench: Fix Python syntax error (reported by LGTM) 2022-01-10 18:23:10 -05:00
scsi error: Use error_fatal to simplify obvious fatal errors (again) 2021-08-26 17:15:28 +02:00
semihosting target/riscv: Replace riscv_cpu_is_32bit with riscv_cpu_mxl 2021-10-22 07:47:51 +10:00
slirp@a88d9ace23 Update libslirp to v4.6.1 2021-08-03 16:07:22 +04:00
softmmu util/oslib-posix: Forward SIGBUS to MCE handler under Linux 2022-01-07 19:30:13 -05:00
storage-daemon qapi: Generalize command policy checking 2021-10-29 18:24:46 +02:00
stubs chardev: don't exit() straight away on C-a x 2021-11-04 10:32:01 +00:00
subprojects/libvhost-user libvhost-user: fix VHOST_USER_REM_MEM_REG skipping mmap_addr 2021-10-20 04:37:55 -04:00
target target/mips: Extract trap code into env->error_code 2022-01-11 18:40:44 +01:00
tcg exec/memop: Adding signedness to quad definitions 2022-01-08 15:46:10 +10:00
tests tests: acpi: Add updated TPM related tables 2022-01-07 19:30:13 -05:00
tools virtiofsd: Error on bad socket group name 2021-10-25 19:38:32 +01:00
trace trace: move configuration from configure to Meson 2021-10-14 09:50:56 +02:00
ui ui: fix gtk clipboard clear assertion 2022-01-13 10:57:43 +01:00
util qemu/int128: addition of div/rem 128-bit operations 2022-01-08 15:46:10 +10:00
.cirrus.yml cirrus: delete FreeBSD and macOS jobs 2021-07-14 14:33:53 +01:00
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.exrc qemu: add .exrc 2012-09-07 09:02:44 +03:00
.gdbinit .gdbinit: load QEMU sub-commands when gdb starts 2017-06-07 14:38:45 +01:00
.gitattributes maint: Tell git that *.py files should use python diff hunks 2021-02-15 22:13:34 -05:00
.gitignore gitignore: Update with some filetypes 2021-07-23 17:22:15 +01:00
.gitlab-ci.yml docs: Document GitLab custom CI/CD variables 2021-07-29 07:56:01 +02:00
.gitmodules gitmodules: use GitLab repos instead of qemu.org 2021-02-09 20:53:56 +00:00
.gitpublish Add a git-publish configuration file 2018-03-05 09:03:17 +00:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: Change philmd's email address 2021-12-31 13:42:54 +01:00
.patchew.yml scripts/checkpatch: roll diff tweaking into checkpatch itself 2021-06-25 10:08:33 +01:00
.readthedocs.yml readthedocs: build with Python 3.6 2020-10-05 16:30:45 +01:00
.travis.yml travis.yml: Remove the "Release tarball" job 2021-10-12 08:37:05 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: update from FSF 2008-10-12 17:54:42 +00:00
COPYING.LIB COPYING.LIB: Synchronize the LGPL 2.1 with the version from gnu.org 2019-01-30 11:01:22 +01:00
Kconfig meson: Introduce target-specific Kconfig 2021-07-09 18:21:34 +02:00
Kconfig.host kconfig: split CONFIG_SPARSE_MEM from fuzzing 2021-10-14 09:50:56 +02:00
LICENSE tcg/LICENSE: Remove out of date claim about TCG subdirectory licensing 2019-11-11 15:11:21 +01:00
MAINTAINERS docs: reSTify virtio-balloon-stats documentation and move to docs/interop 2022-01-07 19:30:13 -05:00
Makefile build: use "meson test" as the test harness 2021-12-23 10:06:19 +01:00
README.rst README: Fix some documentation URLs 2021-10-23 20:28:12 +02:00
VERSION Open 6.3 development tree 2021-12-14 12:40:12 -08:00
block.c block: Let replace_child_noperm free children 2021-11-16 09:43:46 +01:00
blockdev-nbd.c block/nbd: Use qcrypto_tls_creds_check_endpoint() 2021-06-29 18:29:47 +01:00
blockdev.c blockjob: implement and use block_job_get_aio_context 2021-12-28 15:18:23 +01:00
blockjob.c blockjob: drop BlockJob.blk field 2021-12-28 15:18:59 +01:00
configure tests/tcg: Use $cpu in configure.sh 2021-12-30 21:37:35 -08:00
cpu.c linux-user: Add code for PR_GET/SET_UNALIGN 2022-01-06 11:40:52 +01:00
cpus-common.c overall/alpha tcg cpus|hppa: Fix Lesser GPL version number 2020-11-15 16:43:54 +01:00
disas.c Do not include cpu.h if it's not really necessary 2021-05-02 17:24:51 +02:00
gdbstub.c gdbstub, kvm: let KVM report supported singlestep flags 2021-12-10 09:47:18 +01:00
gitdm.config contrib/gitdm: add a new interns group-map for GSoC/Outreachy work 2021-07-23 17:22:16 +01:00
hmp-commands-info.hx qapi: introduce x-query-irq QMP command 2021-11-02 15:57:12 +00:00
hmp-commands.hx hmp: Add shortcut to stop command to match cont 2021-11-09 10:11:27 +01:00
iothread.c iothread: use IOThreadParamInfo in iothread_[set|get]_param() 2021-10-07 15:29:50 +01:00
job-qmp.c progressmeter: protect with a mutex 2021-06-25 14:24:24 +03:00
job.c job.c: add missing notifier initialization 2021-12-28 15:16:31 +01:00
memory_ldst.c.inc exec/memory_ldst: Use correct type sizes 2021-05-26 08:35:51 -07:00
meson.build bsd-user: create a per-arch signal.c file 2022-01-07 22:58:51 -07:00
meson_options.txt ui: add a D-Bus display backend 2021-12-21 10:50:22 +04:00
module-common.c all: Clean up includes 2016-02-04 17:41:30 +00:00
os-posix.c remove qemu-options* from root directory 2021-05-26 14:49:46 +02:00
os-win32.c remove qemu-options* from root directory 2021-05-26 14:49:46 +02:00
page-vary-common.c exec: Build page-vary-common.c with -fno-lto 2021-03-23 19:36:47 -06:00
page-vary.c exec: Build page-vary-common.c with -fno-lto 2021-03-23 19:36:47 -06:00
qemu-bridge-helper.c qemu-bridge-helper: relocate path to default ACL 2020-09-30 19:11:36 +02:00
qemu-edid.c edid: set default resolution to 1280x800 (WXGA) 2022-01-13 10:59:16 +01:00
qemu-img-cmds.hx qemu-img: Consistent docs for convert -F 2021-11-02 12:47:51 +01:00
qemu-img.c blockjob: implement and use block_job_get_aio_context 2021-12-28 15:18:23 +01:00
qemu-io-cmds.c block: Acquire AioContexts during bdrv_reopen_multiple() 2021-07-09 13:19:11 +02:00
qemu-io.c error: Use error_fatal to simplify obvious fatal errors (again) 2021-08-26 17:15:28 +02:00
qemu-keymap.c qemu-keymap: Add license in generated files 2021-12-17 10:41:50 +01:00
qemu-nbd.c nbd/server: Add --selinux-label option 2021-11-16 10:16:38 -06:00
qemu-options.hx qemu-options: Remove the deprecated -no-quit option 2022-01-05 11:10:13 +01:00
qemu.nsi nsis: adjust for new MinGW paths 2021-01-23 15:55:05 -05:00
qemu.sasl sasl: remove comment about obsolete kerberos versions 2021-06-14 13:28:50 +01:00
replication.c replication: move include out of root directory 2021-05-26 14:49:46 +02:00
trace-events trace: Split guest_mem_before 2021-10-05 16:53:17 -07:00
version.rc configure: remove CONFIG_FILEVERSION and CONFIG_PRODUCTVERSION 2021-01-02 21:03:37 +01:00

README.rst

===========
QEMU README
===========

QEMU is a generic and open source machine & userspace emulator and
virtualizer.

QEMU is capable of emulating a complete machine in software without any
need for hardware virtualization support. By using dynamic translation,
it achieves very good performance. QEMU can also integrate with the Xen
and KVM hypervisors to provide emulated hardware while allowing the
hypervisor to manage the CPU. With hypervisor support, QEMU can achieve
near native performance for CPUs. When QEMU emulates CPUs directly it is
capable of running operating systems made for one machine (e.g. an ARMv7
board) on a different machine (e.g. an x86_64 PC board).

QEMU is also capable of providing userspace API virtualization for Linux
and BSD kernel interfaces. This allows binaries compiled against one
architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux PPC64 ABI) to be run on a host using a
different architecture ABI (e.g. the Linux x86_64 ABI). This does not
involve any hardware emulation, simply CPU and syscall emulation.

QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly
by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings.
It also aims to facilitate integration into higher level management
layers, by providing a stable command line interface and monitor API.
It is commonly invoked indirectly via the libvirt library when using
open source applications such as oVirt, OpenStack and virt-manager.

QEMU as a whole is released under the GNU General Public License,
version 2. For full licensing details, consult the LICENSE file.


Documentation
=============

Documentation can be found hosted online at
`<https://www.qemu.org/documentation/>`_. The documentation for the
current development version that is available at
`<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/>`_ is generated from the ``docs/``
folder in the source tree, and is built by `Sphinx
<https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/>_`.


Building
========

QEMU is multi-platform software intended to be buildable on all modern
Linux platforms, OS-X, Win32 (via the Mingw64 toolchain) and a variety
of other UNIX targets. The simple steps to build QEMU are:


.. code-block:: shell

  mkdir build
  cd build
  ../configure
  make

Additional information can also be found online via the QEMU website:

* `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Linux>`_
* `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/Mac>`_
* `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Hosts/W32>`_


Submitting patches
==================

The QEMU source code is maintained under the GIT version control system.

.. code-block:: shell

   git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu.git

When submitting patches, one common approach is to use 'git
format-patch' and/or 'git send-email' to format & send the mail to the
qemu-devel@nongnu.org mailing list. All patches submitted must contain
a 'Signed-off-by' line from the author. Patches should follow the
guidelines set out in the `style section
<https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/style.html>` of
the Developers Guide.

Additional information on submitting patches can be found online via
the QEMU website

* `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch>`_
* `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/TrivialPatches>`_

The QEMU website is also maintained under source control.

.. code-block:: shell

  git clone https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu-web.git

* `<https://www.qemu.org/2017/02/04/the-new-qemu-website-is-up/>`_

A 'git-publish' utility was created to make above process less
cumbersome, and is highly recommended for making regular contributions,
or even just for sending consecutive patch series revisions. It also
requires a working 'git send-email' setup, and by default doesn't
automate everything, so you may want to go through the above steps
manually for once.

For installation instructions, please go to

*  `<https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish>`_

The workflow with 'git-publish' is:

.. code-block:: shell

  $ git checkout master -b my-feature
  $ # work on new commits, add your 'Signed-off-by' lines to each
  $ git publish

Your patch series will be sent and tagged as my-feature-v1 if you need to refer
back to it in the future.

Sending v2:

.. code-block:: shell

  $ git checkout my-feature # same topic branch
  $ # making changes to the commits (using 'git rebase', for example)
  $ git publish

Your patch series will be sent with 'v2' tag in the subject and the git tip
will be tagged as my-feature-v2.

Bug reporting
=============

The QEMU project uses GitLab issues to track bugs. Bugs
found when running code built from QEMU git or upstream released sources
should be reported via:

* `<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues>`_

If using QEMU via an operating system vendor pre-built binary package, it
is preferable to report bugs to the vendor's own bug tracker first. If
the bug is also known to affect latest upstream code, it can also be
reported via GitLab.

For additional information on bug reporting consult:

* `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/ReportABug>`_


ChangeLog
=========

For version history and release notes, please visit
`<https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/>`_ or look at the git history for
more detailed information.


Contact
=======

The QEMU community can be contacted in a number of ways, with the two
main methods being email and IRC

* `<mailto:qemu-devel@nongnu.org>`_
* `<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel>`_
* #qemu on irc.oftc.net

Information on additional methods of contacting the community can be
found online via the QEMU website:

* `<https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/StartHere>`_