[ops] Windows Guest Resolution
All; We finally have reliable means to generate Windows images for our OpenStack, but we're running into a minor annoyance. Our Windows instances appear to have a resolution cap of 1024x768. It would be extremely useful to be able use resolutions higher than this, especially 1920x1080. Is this possible with OpenStack on KVM? As a second request; is there a way to add a second virtual monitor? Or to achieve the same thing, increase the resolution to 3840x1080? Thank you, Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA Vice President - Information Technology Perform Air International Inc. DHilsbos@PerformAir.com www.PerformAir.com
I believe you need the guest drivers https://www.linux-kvm.org/page/WindowsGuestDrivers/Download_Drivers Right now the instance does not seem to have a windows driver for the video hardware and hence will use a generic video driver On 04/06/2021 17:54, DHilsbos@performair.com wrote:
All;
We finally have reliable means to generate Windows images for our OpenStack, but we're running into a minor annoyance. Our Windows instances appear to have a resolution cap of 1024x768. It would be extremely useful to be able use resolutions higher than this, especially 1920x1080. Is this possible with OpenStack on KVM?
As a second request; is there a way to add a second virtual monitor? Or to achieve the same thing, increase the resolution to 3840x1080?
Thank you,
Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA Vice President - Information Technology Perform Air International Inc. DHilsbos@PerformAir.com www.PerformAir.com
Hi, Please try to install latest drivers from below links. https://www.linuxsysadmins.com/create-windows-server-image-for-openstack/ https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-vir... Ammad On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 8:59 PM <DHilsbos@performair.com> wrote:
All;
We finally have reliable means to generate Windows images for our OpenStack, but we're running into a minor annoyance. Our Windows instances appear to have a resolution cap of 1024x768. It would be extremely useful to be able use resolutions higher than this, especially 1920x1080. Is this possible with OpenStack on KVM?
As a second request; is there a way to add a second virtual monitor? Or to achieve the same thing, increase the resolution to 3840x1080?
Thank you,
Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA Vice President - Information Technology Perform Air International Inc. DHilsbos@PerformAir.com www.PerformAir.com
-- Regards, Syed Ammad Ali
Hi Hilibos, I have tested one more thing, you need to set image property hw_video_mode to qxl and install RedHat QXL controller driver from virtio-win IO. Then you will be able to set the resolution to 1080. - Ammad On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 11:04 PM Ammad Syed <syedammad83@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Please try to install latest drivers from below links.
https://www.linuxsysadmins.com/create-windows-server-image-for-openstack/
https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-vir...
Ammad
On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 8:59 PM <DHilsbos@performair.com> wrote:
All;
We finally have reliable means to generate Windows images for our OpenStack, but we're running into a minor annoyance. Our Windows instances appear to have a resolution cap of 1024x768. It would be extremely useful to be able use resolutions higher than this, especially 1920x1080. Is this possible with OpenStack on KVM?
As a second request; is there a way to add a second virtual monitor? Or to achieve the same thing, increase the resolution to 3840x1080?
Thank you,
Dominic L. Hilsbos, MBA Vice President - Information Technology Perform Air International Inc. DHilsbos@PerformAir.com www.PerformAir.com
-- Regards,
Syed Ammad Ali
-- Regards, Syed Ammad Ali
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Ammad Syed
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DHilsbos＠performair.com
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Luke Camilleri