> This patch breaks QEMU for me.
> The symptom is the following: in virt-manager, the display remains dead
> (black), when I start an OVMF guest. At the same time, unusually high
> CPU load can be seen on the host; it makes me think that virt-manager is
> trying, in a busy loop, to complete the VNC handshake, or some such.
> Ultimately, although the guest boots up fine, virt-manager gives up, and
> the display window says "Viewer was disconnected".
It is the vnc_colordepth() call. Seems gtk-vnc sends a update request
with incremental=0 as response to the VNC_ENCODING_WMVi message. So
sending that as response to an incremental=0 update request creates an
endless loop ...
take care,
Gerd
diff --git a/ui/vnc.c b/ui/vnc.c
index d429bfee5a65..0a3e2f4aa98c 100644
--- a/ui/vnc.c
+++ b/ui/vnc.c
@@ -2041,7 +2041,6 @@ static void framebuffer_update_request(VncState *vs, int
incremental,
} else {
vs->update = VNC_STATE_UPDATE_FORCE;
vnc_set_area_dirty(vs->dirty, vs->vd, x, y, w, h);
- vnc_colordepth(vs);
vnc_desktop_resize(vs);
vnc_led_state_change(vs);
vnc_cursor_define(vs);
