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Deal with QEMU and OVMF default resolution being 1280x800, affecting (at least) qxl size:M

Added by favogt almost 2 years ago. Updated about 1 year ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
High
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Category:
Feature requests
Target version:
Start date:
2022-06-03
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% Done:

0%

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Description

Observation

With QEMU 7, the default video resolution was changed to 1280x800
OVMF 202202, which is in Leap 15.4, did the same change: https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/862ea6e83614066efdc2436f3727615ca37d9691
The default "-vga VGA" doesn't appear to be affected for some reason, but at least qxl is: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/2400506#step/bootloader_uefi/9

I tried various ways to get the resolution back to 800x600 or 1024x768 as expected by openQA, but failed.
The xres/yres properties appear to be ignored by OVMF. What works is to explicitly change the resolution in the OVMF configuration.

For now I downgraded OVMF on ow4 to the version in 15.3 (202008-150300.10.14.1).

Acceptance criteria

  • AC1: Default resolution with qxl is restored, or qxl is not used anymore
  • AC2: Use of the new firmware image is not known to cause any test failures

Suggestions

Workaround

  • Option 1: Downgrade OVMF to <= 202008-150300.10.14.1
  • Option 2 (TBC): Use a different graphics setting than QEMUVGA=qxl

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