On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 05:43:17AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote > Have you installed x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting on the guest?
Cannot be done on my machines. On 2 physical machines, and on the Gentoo guest, I get... > emerge -pv xf86-video-modesetting > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting-0.9.0::gentoo 298 KiB > [blocks B ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting > ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-modesetting" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.4) > > Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 298 KiB > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) > > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > * installed at the same time on the same system. On the guest, I unmerged xorg-server and tried emerging xf86-video-modesetting. The result was that it would've pulled in xorg-server, which would again have blocked xf86-video-modesetting. Wierd. > Have you compiled the guest kernel with CONFIG_DRM_CIRRUS_QEMU? > > If yes, then I guess that you don't need xf86-video-cirrus at all. > > > With "-vga > > std" X doesn't start up at all. > > You probably need to compile the guest kernel with CONFIG_DRM_BOCHS > for "-vga std". > > > Any suggestions for improvement? > > There is also a kernel option for a KMS enabled DRM driver for the > VMware SVGA virtual hardware (CONFIG_DRM_VMWGFX). I think that the > performance of this driver is better than the performance of the > cirrus driver. As I mentioned earlier vmware, cirrus, and bochs all ticked off in "make menuconfig". Now that I have something working, I think I'll make a copy of the 10-gig guest disk image before any further tweaking that might render it inoperative again. > I think that you also need x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware installed > on the guest if you want to use "-vga vmware". I've tried that earlier, when things weren't working. Maybe it'll work this time. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications