Comment 15 for bug 1308756

I agree with the summary change to "pc 1.0 machine type regressed with -vga vmware":

And confirm via two new VM desktop guest installations. One was on a 14.04 server host upgraded from from a 12.04 server. The other was on a new 14.04 server. In both cases the machine type was forced on the command line:

sudo virt-install -n desk_tt3 -r 8192 --disk path=/media/newhd/desk_tt3.img,bus=virtio,size=50 -c trusty-desktop-amd64-20140417.iso --machine pc-1.0 --network bridge=br0,model=virtio --video=vmvga --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole -v --vcpus=4

They both had the low graphics issue upon re-boot after the installation completed.

I agree with the recommendation to just change the machine type and this bug being set to "won't fix".

About the cirrus driver:

I was using "virsh edit bla" to change the driver, something I do often. I made a new VM desktop guest from scratch with this command (which will use the cirrus driver, by default):

sudo virt-install -n desk_tt4 -r 8192 --disk path=/home/doug/img/desk_tt4.img,bus=virtio,size=50 -c trusty-desktop-amd64-20140417.iso --machine pc-1.0 --network bridge=br0,model=virtio --graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 --noautoconsole -v --vcpus=4

And it worked fine. (Except that the cirrus driver has never worked quite right for me, and the display size options are not as extensive as the vmvga driver.) I'll come back to this if needed.

I disagree about bumping the memory size as a fix:

For many months (13.10 days) I have always been bumping the memory for the video, as I calculated that it should be more. Typically, I have this in the .xml file:

<model type='vmvga' vram='16384' heads='1'/>

And I even ran this just now:

<model type='vmvga' vram='32768' heads='1'/>

Question:

what file or location that contains this stuff mentioned above? (so that I can look at the bigger context):
        },{\
            .driver = "VGA",\
            .property = "vgamem_mb",\
            .value = stringify(8),\
        },{\
            .driver = "vmware-svga",\
            .property = "vgamem_mb",\
            .value = stringify(8)