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Re: What fake display adapter do you use?

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> PCI Class Display, type VGA
> Address 0 is a Memory Address (anywhere in 0-4Gb, Prefetchable) : 
> E0000000h
>

That tells me that it has just the one mapping of the frame buffer, and 
that if it has a non-VGA I/O register bank it doesn't advertize it in 
the proper PCI way.

> If I get a chance I will boot a Knoppix DVD on the same virtual 
> hardware and post you what lspci -vvv thinks about it.
>

That would be interesting and informative.

> This is VirtualBox 2.0.4 btw but I don't think it changes - still 
> works on 4.0.0 which is the latest that I've tried (USB is another 
> matter which is why I'm still on 2.0.4).
>

If it's a simple dumb framebuffer device, I wouldn't expect it to 
(visbly) change.

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