> On 26. Jun 2019, at 22:23, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)
> <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:51:41PM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote:
>> What's the conclusion? Maybe that Guix is fine and the VNC-clients are
>> also fine. It might just be a matter of configuration or using an older
>> version with bugs?
>>
>
> Passing “-vga cirrus” reduces the display size.
>
> The command “man qemu” says:
>
> -vga type
> Select type of VGA card to emulate. Valid values for type
> are
>
> cirrus
> Cirrus Logic GD5446 Video card. All Windows versions
> starting from Windows 95 should recognize and use
> this graphic card. For optimal performances, use 16
> bit color depth in the guest and the host OS. (This
> card was the default before QEMU 2.2)
>
> So presumably the VPS is using an old QEMU or passes -vga cirrus.
Great find! Indeed, lspci lists
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Cirrus Logic GD 5446
Is this something that could be fixed by including a driver for that
card in the kernel?
