Bug#614169: Bug#614252: qemu -enable-kvm freezes
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. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#614169: Bug#614252: qemu -enable-kvm freezes
Hi there! On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:46:10 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:52:25AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: 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. Thank you for the information, I was (sort of) aware that the merging has not been completed yet. FYI, mine was not a complaint, just a general remark in case it would have mattered WRT to both bugs (which does not seem the case). Thx, bye, Gismo / Luca pgptSyOEbDiVN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#614169: Bug#614252: qemu -enable-kvm freezes
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 pgpBjcjG3rCdG.pgp Description: PGP signature
