Question regarding Qubes/Xen "standard VGA" driver for windows (one used by "debug window")

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daltong defourne

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Apr 1, 2018, 4:20:56 PM4/1/18

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Good afternoon!

I've been using the "debug window + USBIp mouse" workaround (this one https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3480 ) to have decent dual-screen on Windows-7 Qubes VM

The "Default Windows VGA driver version 6.1.7600.16385" is actually performing pretty okay

However, I've noticed that the second screen (the "debug-window based" one) is not exact proper screen resolution I need (it is 1920x1200, while the screen is 1920x1080, resulting in part of the screen being "hidden")

Apparently, this is not an unknown thing on Xen and a "feature" of "windows default VGA driver" https://superuser.com/questions/826302/cant-use-1920x1080-resolution-on-xenserver-windows-7-guest#comment1173988_878938

Is there any alternative driver or perhaps a known "Xen community" hack that can be used to get 1920*1080 resolution?

Asking in dev mailing list on assumption that chances of this being read by a helpful person deeply knowledgeable about Xen/Qubes driver stuff are higher this way