On Feb 21, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Avi Kivity wrote: > 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.
When the patch was committed to qemu, the author actually said it worked with Windows too. He was quite surprised as well, as all he did was taking the OSS Linux driver and build the hardware spec from that. So my guess would be, that Linux targets with vmware vga should be broken too. > > > -- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
