Let me tell you what I have done:
I have updraded qemu to the noroms version. The problem was
reintroduced.
Then, in the directory where I hold my images (.local/share/kvm):
> mkdir bios
> cd bios
> ln -s /usr/share/qemu/* .
> rm vgabios.bin bios.bin
> copied vgabios.bin and bio
There are two different problems to be tackled here:
- with seabios bios.bin we get a lot of messages saying "BUG:
kvm_dirty_pages_log_enable_slot: invalid parameters".
- with vgabios.bin and -vga std we get 800x600x4 maximum resolution, as a
fallback in qemu.
I have tested different combin
Unfortunately, today vgabios and seabios have been reintroduced, and the
problem reappeared.
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kvm with -vga std is broken since karmic
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513273
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With -std vga we can only get 800x600 16 colors, which is a fallback,
while -vga cirrus works well. KVM 0.11.0 from karmic works well, since
this bug only affects 0.12 and above.
Quite annoying, since one can only obtain resolutions like 1280x768 from
-vga std.
I propose to move up the bug impor
