Only 800x600 resolution available after install in QEMU

[Phillip Susi]

Boot 18.04 iso inside a qemu vm using stdvga display. A usable resolution works fine in live cd, but after installing to the hard disk and rebooting, only 800x600 is available.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-32.35-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-32-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Aug 20 16:10:44 2018
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes
GraphicsCard:
 Device [1234:1111] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Red Hat, Inc Device [1af4:1100]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-20 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Xen HVM domU
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-32-generic root=UUID=dd1777df-63a5-474f-94a7-2240033e0a9b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 04/16/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Xen
dmi.bios.version: 4.9.2
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Xen
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnXen:bvr4.9.2:bd04/16/2018:svnXen:pnHVMdomU:pvr4.9.2:cvnXen:ct1:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HVM domU
dmi.product.version: 4.9.2
dmi.sys.vendor: Xen
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.91-2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 18.0.5-0ubuntu0~18.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Does the situation change at all when choosing to log in to 'Ubuntu on Wayland' or 'Ubuntu'?

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I tried wayland and the session just failed and went right back to the low resolution login screen, which is Xorg. I tried wayland a second time and just get a permanent busy cursor.