Hi all, first of all let me express my gratitude to you for your work on xen. That''s something becoming indispensable in my everyday work, especially now with 3.3. Then, I would like to ask if someone could show me where to find some docs on how to handle graphics in a domU. I have a pv OpenSuse guest that I use to run the COMSOL FE-code and I find that the default 800x600 display size is a bit tiny to work with, so I would lo to get pointers on how to change that (if it were possible, of course!). Regards, Valerion -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
You can use XDMCP over Network. They are many ways to configure it. The best and easiest way ist with GDM on your Guest. On OpenSolaris yo can use on OpenSolaris Xephyr to connect to the XDMCP Server. So you can get it with many modes, in fullscreen if requested and with 3D if requested -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Francesco Caimmi wrote:> Hi all, > > first of all let me express my gratitude to you for your work on xen. That''s something becoming indispensable in my everyday work, especially now with 3.3. > > Then, I would like to ask if someone could show me where to find some docs on how to> handle graphics in a domU. I have a pv OpenSuse guest that I use to run the COMSOL > FE-code and I find that the default 800x600 display size is a bit tiny to work > with, so I would lo to get pointers on how to change that (if it were possible, of course!).> > Regards, > ValerionIn theory, you would change it in the guest under display setting like you would on metal.. Looking on my 3.4 system (/usr/lib/xen/bin/xenstore-ls), it looks like the PV framebuffer backend driver supports larger sizes (feature-resize = "1"). vncunused = "1" domain = "opensuse" vnc = "1" uuid = "c8b5cf0c-a629-85f2-cfa0-fe03c2366016" frontend = "/local/domain/3/device/vfb/0" state = "4" keymap = "en-us" online = "1" frontend-id = "3" feature-resize = "1" hotplug-status = "connected" location = "127.0.0.1:5900" request-update = "1" It could be that you need newer PV drivers in the Linux guest? MRJ
Well, actually I should have said that I am not able to change the screen resolution using the admin tools in the guest and that I am looking for a way to play with the pv driver. I found some hints in the SLES manual (it seems that one can add some line to the kernel command), I hope they will apply to OpenSuse as well. I''ll let you know when I will try. Anyhow, this has suddenly become a minor issue, because form this morning when I try to start this guest I receive a not so encouraging error: xend.err "Boot loader didn''t return any data!" which makes me fear for integrity of the zvol the domain is installed on... -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Francesco Caimmi wrote:> Well, actually I should have said that I am not able to change the screen resolution using the admin tools in the guest and that I am looking for a way to play with the pv driver. > > I found some hints in the SLES manual (it seems that one can add some line to the kernel command), I hope they will apply to OpenSuse as well. > > I''ll let you know when I will try. > > Anyhow, this has suddenly become a minor issue, because form this morning when I try to start this guest I receive a not so encouraging error: > xend.err "Boot loader didn''t return any data!" > which makes me fear for integrity of the zvol the domain is installed on...zpool status? More likely opensuse updated some packages and messed up the grub menu or something like that.. MRJ
> More likely opensuse updated some packages and messed > up the > grub menu or something like that..Yes, it was must have been something like that, but I managed to fix it using the repair utilities of the suse dvd. I had no time to hunt down the problem (I needed the vm back online asap) but the automatic repair worked. Now I will try to understand how to get at least a 1024x768 sized window... Regards, Valerion -- This message posted from opensolaris.org