On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:52:25AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes this is something known, some parts of kvm hasn't been merged yet,
that's actually why we have both qemu and qemu-kvm in the archive. FYI,
it has already been reported as bug #597527.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
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