Subject: bug#36069: Menu-based installer unusable through noVNC

From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:23:51 +0200

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 06:51:41PM +0200, Björn Höfling wrote:
> What's the conclusion? Maybe that Guix is fine and the VNC-clients are
> also fine. It might just be a matter of configuration or using an older
> version with bugs?
> 

Passing “-vga cirrus” reduces the display size.

The command “man qemu” says:

-vga type
    Select type of VGA card to emulate. Valid values for type
    are

    cirrus
        Cirrus Logic GD5446 Video card. All Windows versions
        starting from Windows 95 should recognize and use
        this graphic card. For optimal performances, use 16
        bit color depth in the guest and the host OS.  (This
        card was the default before QEMU 2.2)

So presumably the VPS is using an old QEMU or passes -vga cirrus.

Regards,
Florian