Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-24 Thread Veruca Salt
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:26:25 +0200 > From: kra...@redhat.com > To: peter.mayd...@linaro.org > CC: srira...@yahoo.com; stefa...@gmail.com; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; > k...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga car

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-22 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 04/18/13 18:58, Sriram Murthy wrote: > Some updates on this - I changed the PCI Device ID and Vendor ID in > hw/vga.c, and was able to get the VirtualBox SVGA card driver > installed in WinXP running on KVM. However, when I try to change the > resolution, KVM crashes with a SIGFPE in vbe_ioport_

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-18 Thread Sriram Murthy
600? Regards, Sriram   From: Gerd Hoffmann To: Peter Maydell Cc: Sriram Murthy ; Stefan Hajnoczi ; qemu list ; "k...@vger.kernel.org" Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 5:26 AM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM On 04/08/13 17:11,

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-15 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On 04/08/13 17:11, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 6 April 2013 00:52, Sriram Murthy wrote: >> (actually, the virtualbox SVGA card is based off of the KVM VGA card) > > Is it possible to implement it as an extension to the VGA > card device, or has it diverged incompatibly such that it > has to be its

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-11 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 11:25:05AM -0700, Sriram Murthy wrote: > > > Hi, > > > >Personally, I think that the connection between VirtualBox and QEMU is > >very unidirectional if there is any... So code-wise our focus should > >rather be to avoid code copies/divergence within our tree and to shar

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-09 Thread Sriram Murthy
o: Sriram Murthy > Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi ; qemu list ; > "k...@vger.kernel.org" > Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 8:11 AM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM > > On 6 April 2013 00:52, Sriram Murthy wrote: >> (actually, the virtualbox SVGA card is

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-09 Thread Andreas Färber
> > - Original Message - > From: Peter Maydell > To: Sriram Murthy > Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi ; qemu list ; > "k...@vger.kernel.org" > Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 8:11 AM > Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM > > On 6 April 2013 00:52, Sr

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-09 Thread Sriram Murthy
No idea. I havent had a chance to install Windows 8 on Virtualbox yet. -Sriram - Original Message - From: Yan Vugenfirer To: Sriram Murthy Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi ; "k...@vger.kernel.org" ; qemu list Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2013 9:04 AM Subject: Re: Virtualbox svga card in KVM On Apr 6

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-09 Thread Yan Vugenfirer
On Apr 6, 2013, at 2:52 AM, Sriram Murthy wrote: > For starters, virtual box has better SVGA WDDM drivers that allows for a much > richer display when the VM display is local. Does it support S3 and S4 with Windows 8? Yan. > I am yet to completely understand both the KVM and the virtualbox SVG

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-08 Thread Sriram Murthy
; qemu list ; "k...@vger.kernel.org" Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM On 6 April 2013 00:52, Sriram Murthy wrote: > (actually, the virtualbox SVGA card is based off of the KVM VGA card) Is it possible to implement it as an ext

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-08 Thread Peter Maydell
On 6 April 2013 00:52, Sriram Murthy wrote: > (actually, the virtualbox SVGA card is based off of the KVM VGA card) Is it possible to implement it as an extension to the VGA card device, or has it diverged incompatibly such that it has to be its own separate device model? thanks -- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-08 Thread Sriram Murthy
By "richer display", I meant support for different resolution and color depth (including support for nonstandard resolutions as well). -Sriram - Original Message - From: Stefan Hajnoczi To: Sriram Murthy Cc: "k...@vger.kernel.org" ; qemu list Sent: Monday, April 8, 2013 3:46 AM Sub

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-08 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 04:52:05PM -0700, Sriram Murthy wrote: > For starters, virtual box has better SVGA WDDM drivers that allows for a much > richer display when the VM display is local. What does "much richer display" mean? Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-05 Thread Sriram Murthy
For starters, virtual box has better SVGA WDDM drivers that allows for a much richer display when the VM display is local. I am yet to completely understand both the KVM and the virtualbox SVGA card (actually, the virtualbox SVGA card is based off of the KVM VGA card), so I may not be the author

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-05 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:53:21AM -0400, Alon Levy wrote: > > I am planning on bringing in the virtualbox svga card into kvm > > as a new svga card type (vbox probably?) so that we can load > > the VirtualBox SVGA card drivers in the guest. I'm curious if the vbox SVGA card has fea

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-02 Thread Sriram Murthy
Hi,     I am looking into hw/vga.c and hw/vga-pci.c as a starting point in my effort to get vbox svga card into kvm.     However, given my very basic understanding of VGA/SVGA standards, can somebody throw some light on the inner workings of the std vga card in kvm?     Also, are there any g

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-04-01 Thread Sriram Murthy
Hi,     I am looking into hw/vga.c and hw/vga-pci.c as a starting point in my effort to get vbox svga card into kvm.     However, given my very basic understanding of VGA/SVGA standards, can somebody throw some light on the inner workings of the std vga card in kvm?     Also, are there any good

Re: [Qemu-devel] Virtualbox svga card in KVM

2013-03-21 Thread Alon Levy
> > > Hi, > I am planning on bringing in the virtualbox svga card into kvm > as a new svga card type (vbox probably?) so that we can load > the VirtualBox SVGA card drivers in the guest. > > Is this even feasible?. Any ideas on where I should start > looking? I don't se