On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 6:15 PM, adrelanos wrote:
> Security reasons. It weakens isolation between guest and host. See also
> [1]. Another reason is, guest additions are every now and then not
> installable.
Makes sense.
> Maybe. Have they been forwarded upstream? Are there workarounds?
Not according to the BTS and probably not.
> In /etc/default/grub using GRUB_GFXMODE="1280x1024" works, but only for
> the grub boot menu.
>
> I don't know which driver/module grub is loading to achieve that. Other
> then the GRUB_GFXMODE="1280x1024 change, no other changes. So grub
> default, whatever that is. Any way I could find out? Probably indeed
> vesa. (Because other standards available at that early phase don't even
> support higher resolutions in principle as far I know.)
It appears that grub loads multiple video modules, from my /boot/grub/grub.cfg:
function load_video {
insmod vbe
insmod vga
insmod video_bochs
insmod video_cirrus
}
Not sure about how to find out what it uses.
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