[vfio-users] Use DVI or HDMI instead of VGA out

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 18:54 -0400, Usama Ahmad wrote:
> Thank You for your reply Alex,
> 
> My fault for not mentioning I am connecting to the VM remotely, in the Win7
> Pro 64 vm both nvidia tool and screen resolution tool show as "analog vga
> monitor" and I was wondering if one can somehow change that.

This is not a vfio issue, you'd have the same problem connecting to a
remote system running the graphics on bare metal.  Thanks,

Alex


> On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson at redhat.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 18:20 -0400, Usama Ahmad wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Not sure if this question has been asked and/or answered before, I could
> > > not find any reference to it.
> > >
> > > Essentially I would like to use DVI out instead of the current VGA in
> > > windows primarily because VGA is limited to a resolution of 2560x1600 4:3
> > > and desired is 2560x1440 16:9. The card being used is GT 730 GDDR5 on
> > > proxmox, relavant entries in conf are hostpci0:
> > > 05:00,x-vga=on,pcie=1,driver=vfio and machine: q35
> >
> > The guest has full ownership of the assigned device, you should be able
> > to use any outputs available and supported by the guest drivers.  When
> > we talk about "VGA assignment", it's in reference to the card supporting
> > VGA access mechanisms and ranges, not to the type of output spigot you
> > connect your monitor to.  Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >