On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 10/25/2018 09:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:52:56AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > While being at it deprecate cirrus too. > > > > > > Reason (short version): use stdvga instead. > > > Verbose version: > > > > > > https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful > > > > Every single one of my guests is using cirrus. This wasn't an explicit > > choice on my part, so I believe it is being used as the default in > > virt-install. > > > > virt-manager/virt-install 2.0.0 will never explicitly set cirrus, but that > release is quite new. The previous release's default for x86 was roughly: > > if using spice graphics: > use qxl > elif guest os is windows: > use vga > else: > use cirrus > > It was definitely sub optimal. Maybe your virt-install commands were > explicitly setting --graphics vnc which would trigger cirrus in that case.
Yep, I've always tended to use vnc, since QXL has historically been a pretty buggy & unreliable device model with guests often breaking. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
