Hello. There are a few bugs filed about an.. interesting behavour. For example:
http://www.mail-archive.com/k...@vger.kernel.org/msg29834.html https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/513273 After quite some mix-n-matching, at least on my test machine, I can say that the issue gets triggered by seabios. When using pc-bios/bios.bin everything is ok. But when using any other bios.bin, even downloading seabios-0.5.1.tar.gz and building it - on a debian lenny system anyway - by running `make', the problem triggers. I tried different versions/variations of vgabios.bin (it's only -vga std which triggers the issue so far), including 0.6b and 0.6c built from sources, vgabios.bin from debian packages (0.6b and 0.6c), and the one included in qemu-0.12.3.tar.gz. And my conclusion so far is that vgabios.bin has exactly _no_ effect on the issue. But when using bios.bin from qemu-kvm-0.12.3.tar.gz, and _only_ that bios.bin, the problem goes away. So the question arises: where that pc-bios/bios.bin comes from into qemu-0.12.3.tar.gz? It is either built from some other sources (not from seabios-0.5.1), or built with some extra/different compiler/linker options, or built using different compiler/linker. This is partially confirmed on ubuntu as well, but, as far as I understand, there the behavour is different with different versions of vgabios. In case it's not clear: I'm testing qemu-kvm-0.12.3; bios.bin is the same in qemu-0.12.3 and qemu-kvm-0.12.3. BTW, is there any reason preventing updating vgabios to 0.6c version - the latest released one? Thanks! /mjt
