Custom VESA mode does not work for 8bit resolution

[rcs-34]

I'm trying to add custom VESA mode 1920x1200x8. I'm using command

VBoxManage setextradata "Modest" "CustomVideoMode1" "1920x1200x8"

and the line

<ExtraDataItem name="CustomVideoMode1" value="1920x1200x8"/>

is created in Modest.vbox correctly. However, when I try to start the virtual machine VB gives me the

VERR_VGA_INVALID_CUSTOM_MODE

error. Note, that 1920x1200x16 and 1920x1200x24 work very fine, but I'm interested in 8bit colors.

[rcs-34]

Well, I have fixed it myself. in src/VBox/Devices/Graphics/DevVGA.cpp (KKK) :

...
if (RT_SUCCESS(rc))
            {
                ModeInfoListItem *pDefMode = mode_info_list;
                unsigned int cx, cy, cBits, cParams, j;
                uint16_t u16DefMode;

                cParams = sscanf(pszExtraData, "%ux%ux%u", &cx, &cy, &cBits);
                /*KKK*/
                if (    cParams != 3
                    ||  (cBits != 8 && cBits != 16 && cBits != 24 && cBits != 32))
                {
         ...

                /* Use defaults from max@bpp mode. */
                switch (cBits)
                {
                    /*KKK*/
                    case 8:
                        u16DefMode = VBE_VESA_MODE_1024X768X8;
                        break;

                    case 16:

[michaln]

VirtualBox 5.0 will allow 8bpp custom video modes.