GTK3 interface doesn't zoom-to-fit by default The SDL interface automatically scales the video output to match the window size. The GTK3 interface has an off-by-default option "Zoom To Fit" for that. As far as I can tell, no command-line option exists to turn that option on. That makes it harder to quickly zoom a freshly launched VM; instead of just hitting a maximize-window hotkey, I also have to navigate through the menu to select "Zoom To Fit". Given that VMs typically start out running in a much lower-resolution video mode than the host (and VMs not running a full graphical environment often stay that way), this seriously impacts the usability of qemu-system. (Observed in QEMU 2.8)