Hi there! On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:07:30 +0100, Javier Vasquez wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net> wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 02:01:16PM -0800, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >>> ... >>> >>> > So, it really was the VGA driver the one making "qemu -enable-kvm" not >>> > to work. >>> >> >> IMHO, it's most probably a duplicate of #614169. > > > Might be, but 614169 doesn't talk about making "qemu -enble-kvm" > unusable. It indicates a warning message is all there is to it, not > wrong functionality, neither that "-vga std" or "-vga vmware" break > "qemu -enable-kvm", which is what I'm experiencing.
There is more than a warning message, as I already reported in this bug (and sorry for not having also reported to #614169, doing now): <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=614252#15> On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:28:15 +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 19:39:23 +0100, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:24:16AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: >>> On an amd64 laptop (debian unstable) I've been using qemu with the >>> following arguments (with windows XP guest): > > Same here: Debian sid with the latest qemu and Windows XP guest. > >>> qemu $ARGS_GEN $ARGS_NET $ARGS_BIOS0 $ARGS_BIOS1 $ARGS_VGA $ARGS_AUDIO >>> $ARGS_USB $ARGS_CPU $ARGS_NIC >> >> i know you've tried a variety of commandline options, but what about just >> using >> the defaults with -enable-kvm? > > $ qemu -enable-kvm -rtc base=localtime -m 512M -vnc 127.0.0.1:9,none \ > -monitor stdio -runas luca /home/luca/xp-pro-en_BioEdit.img [...] >>> qemu: pci_add_option_rom: failed to find romfile "vgabios-stdvga.bin" >> >> this is bug#614169, and as far as i know, shouldn't really be a problem. > > You mean, it is not a problem related to *this* bug? Because it is > anyway a problem, the above command results in an unusable VNC > connection: the window first shows a vertically-degraded gray (from > center to sides), then a degraded blue-to-gray, from left to right, with > some orange in the middle. Anyway, now that vgabios/0.6c-3 was uploaded, including the QEMU patches to vgabios (see #614200), after having manully added the symlink for vgabios-stdvga.bin [1], the following works as expected as normal user: $ ln -s ../vgabios/vgabios.stdvga.bin /usr/share/qemu/vgabios-stdvga.bin $ qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -rtc base=localtime -name XP-Pro-En \ -m 512M -k en-us -soundhw ac97 -usb -usbdevice tablet -vga std \ -vnc localhost:9,none -monitor stdio -runas luca \ /home/luca/xp-pro-en_BioEdit.img [1] I am wondering if QEMU should not directly look where the various vgabios files are instead of symlinking them... Yeah, I know the filenames are different :-( Two notes: first, `qemu -enable-kvm` is slower than `kvm` and, second, I have not tested it for long uptimes yet, sorry, but still with Firefox + Flash video on YouTube. Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca
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