Andreas Winkelbauer wrote: > hi, > > I tried using the -vmwarevga switch but I didn't succeed. I've tested it > with kvm-snapshot-20080218, kvm-60 and kvm-61. > > as soon as the VM (guest os is windows xp) switches from text mode to > graphics mode lots of messages "kvm: get_dirty_pages returned -2" scroll > by on the console. after a while (but still while boot up) the VM > crashes with stop error (blue screen) 0xEA (and says that something > might be wrong with framebuf). > >
I guess it needs the same treatment as cirrus and stdvga (register the framebuffer with kvm as a memory slot). > if I start the VM with -no-kvm I don't see those messages in the > console. the guest os boots up, but crashes quite soon with a stop error > (blue screen) 0x7F. > > my CPU is an intel core 2 duo (mobile). > > uname -a output: > Linux nbwina2.local 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:29:10 EST 2008 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > i start the VM with the following command: > su -c '/usr/local/kvm-61/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 ~/vm/xp.qcow2 -m 1024 -k > de -usb -localtime [-vmwarevga]' > > does -vmwarevga work for anyone (with windows as guest os)? what > information do you need to track down the issue? > > Most likely it only works with Linux; it was probably written by reverse-engineering the Linux driver. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
