Questions about virtualization

Wed Jan 24 12:38:45 EST 2007

On Tue, 2007年01月23日 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