Building vgabios from source as described above added the missing modes
for me too. But still the vga driver does not work properly - it builds
the screen very slowly line by line and takes 20 seconds or more just
for the login-screen.
After some hours I gave up on vga and switched to the
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vgabios-0.6c-2ubuntu1 does not fix the bug for me.
Building vgabios.bin from qemu-kvm-0.12.4.tar.gz sources helps.
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Compared with the vgabios.bin supplied by upstream in qemu-
kvm-0.12.4.tar.gz, the current Lucid vgabios regresses support for a
number of vga modes (e.g. 1920x1200).
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Hi Dustin,
behavior seems ok. No issues there. Just the error message.
Anything you want me to try/test?
Claus
2010/6/15 Dustin Kirkland dustin.kirkl...@gmail.com:
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Other than the error message, are you seeing incorrect behavior? If
so, what specifically?
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Still getting BUG: kvm_dirty_pages_log_enable_slot: invalid parameters
with -vga std-parameter on lucid.
I would suggest to set the bug-status to confirmed instead of fix-released.
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um. Can't you just take approach used in Debian, namely, to provide the
sources for the bios files and compile them at build time? That is
somewhat ugly, but at least it works...
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I'm using qemu-kvm 0.12.3 with -vga std and with res like 1680x1050,
1440x900 and a few other it crashes/quits immediately with message
Could not open SDL display. It happens for me both when switching with
ctrl-alt-f or with cmd line option -full-screen. With 1024x768 for
example it does not
Forgot to mention that I'm also getting constantly the error message:
BUG: kvm_dirty_pages_log_enable_slot: invalid parameters
BUG: kvm_dirty_pages_log_disable_slot: invalid parameters
BUG: kvm_dirty_pages_log_enable_slot: invalid parameters
BUG: kvm_dirty_pages_log_disable_slot: invalid
I've just upgraded to 10.04 (LTS) from 9.10. I can't get 1680x1050
resolution any more with my WinXP VM. The best I can do is 1600x1200
then stretch/squash to fit which looks terrible. I'm using the '-vga
std' option. I also get a series of errors at launch (like the parent
post):
BUG:
Compiling vgabios from qemu-kvm 0.12.3 source fixed my issue. There
appears to be a bunch of video modes missing from the VBE tables in
vgabios distributed with 10.04!?
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* debian/roll-back-to-qemu_0.12.3-snapshot.patch: this patch
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is recommended specifically by qemu and
I care about this bug and I can test against bochs within 24 hours. I
should be using vgabios 0.6b and whatever bochs is current in Ubuntu,
right?
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Please use the vgabios in my PPA, and the bochs in Ubuntu.
My ppa:
* https://edge.launchpad.net/~kirkland/+archive/ppa
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Using the vgabios from Dustin's PPA, bochs from Ubuntu (I'm running a
10.4 beta, so that's 2.4.2-1ubuntu1), and the guest OS is a Debian 3.0
image from Bochs' Sourceforge page. I can run X11 at 1024x768, 24-bit
color. Can't get any higher, but that's as likely a guest-OS limitation
as anything
Does anyone care enough about this bug to test vgabios with bochs?
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The only users positively affected by the new upload are those that
want to use kvm or qemu with the -vga std option.
Does this mean that if you aren't using the -vga option this change has
no effect; and that if you are using the -vga option, it doesn't work
today?
I suspect that the bochs
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Steve Langasek
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The only users positively affected by the new upload are those that
want to use kvm or qemu with the -vga std option.
Does this mean that if you aren't using the -vga option this change has
no effect; and that
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 07:26:50PM -, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
The only users positively affected by the new upload are those that
want to use kvm or qemu with the -vga std option. This VGA mode adds
higher resolutions to the SDL window than the default cirrus driver
(which only allows up
Hi,
I encounter the problem when the guest OS is Windows 7, however with a
Windows XP guest the bug does not occur. Anyway this is a regression
from Karmic.
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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Steve Langasek
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What is the risk of regression here by downgrading? Is use of vgabios
entirely broken today for all users to where things can only get better,
or are there some cases where it works?
The only users positively
Dustin,
What is the risk of regression here by downgrading? Is use of vgabios
entirely broken today for all users to where things can only get better,
or are there some cases where it works?
vgabios has two reverse-dependencies in lucid: qemu-common and bochs.
Has anyone regression-tested this
I also can report success with vgabios from Dustin's PPA when using -vga
std. While with vgabios from main I'll get 4 bit graphics.
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Not entirely sure this will make it into Lucid, though. That will be
up to the Ubuntu Release Team.
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Okay, two confirmations thanks. I'll push this up now.
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Status: Triaged = Invalid
** Changed in: vgabios (Ubuntu Lucid)
Status: Triaged = Fix Committed
** Changed in: seabios (Ubuntu Lucid)
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Dustin, that version works, but I got
BUG: kvm_dirty_pages_log_disable_slot: invalid parameters
...
as reported originally, but now with working resolution and color depth in
emulated os
Using vgabios.bin from qemu package cause the same messages tough
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Dustin, I see a commit in cvs in 2008-12-04 and next in 2009-01-24 I say
included bios is 23 Dec 2008
it is ok to downgrade to 2008-12-04 version and report to qemu developer or
vgabios developer
the problem.
However qemu developer sudjest to use provided vgabios, thus the problem
seems to be
Daniele-
Can you test the vgabios I just posted in my PPA at:
* https://edge.launchpad.net/~kirkland/+archive/ppa
This one reverts all of the changes and backs vgabios down to the
exact code that is in qemu's 0.12.3 release, but built against the
Ubuntu toolchain.
If you can confirm that this
Jamie-
Yes, your proposal is sound.
Basically, all I think we need to do is downgrade the versions of
seabios and/or vgabios that we have in Ubuntu to precisely match those
that upstream QEMU generated to produce their version. We could do
that by using an epoch-hack, or by cherry picking off
Dustin,
You said: Upstream QEMU recommends that we use the bundled vgabios.bin
and bios.bin in their tarball.
However, these binary blobs are generated by GPLv2 code that is not part
of the release tarball.
Per Ubuntu policy, we are not allowed to ship binary blobs without the
associated source
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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
I actually do not upgrade to new package, I see Francisco comment ...
doing `less /usr/share/qemu/vgabios.bin` I see:
current-cvs 23 Dec 2008
I hope there are no commit in that day ..
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Unfortunately, today vgabios and seabios have been reintroduced, and the
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Yes, it has. Sorry about that.
Upstream QEMU recommends that we use the bundled vgabios.bin and
bios.bin in their tarball.
However, these binary blobs are generated by GPLv2 code that is not part
of the release tarball.
Per Ubuntu policy, we are not allowed to ship binary blobs without the
for what I recall bios in qemu package is just an older version, a
downgrade should work or a versioned vgabios package ...
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Daniele-
If you can verify that you can build and install a particular vgabios
version that works, please let me know what version that is. I'll
take a look at the diff between the two versions, and look into a
uploading a downgrade version into Lucid.
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The bios files are missing from the package, instead there is still a
link pointing nowhere:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-03-05 08:26 vgabios.bin
- ../vgabios/vgabios.bin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2010-03-05 08:26 vgabios-cirrus.bin
- ../vgabios/vgabios.cirrus.bin
When the two links
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Doh! Thanks for the patch, Torsten. That's perfect.
Pushed another build to my PPA.
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I just tried 0.12.3-0ubuntu5~ppa2 and I don't get any errors when launching
$ kvm -vga std -hda ./lucid.qcow2
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works on a testdrive call:
kvm -vga std -m 512 -cdrom /srv/vBox/iso/lucid-server-amd64.iso -drive
file=/srv/vBox/img/testdrive-disk-BoYURX.img,if=virtio,index=0,boot=on
-usb -usbdevice tablet -net nic,model=virtio -net user -soundhw es1370
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video
model type='vga' vram='9216' heads='1'/
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This bug was fixed in the package qemu-kvm - 0.12.3-0ubuntu5
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* debian/install, debian/control: use the bios bin's shipped with
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we're seeing issues
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Adding a task against seabios. Per discussion with mjt in IRC, the
problem appears to him to be in bios.bin in the seabios package.
** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu Lucid)
Milestone: ubuntu-10.04-beta-1 = None
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Milestone: ubuntu-10.04-beta-1 = None
So one very viable approach would be to use the vgabios.bin and bios.bin
that's built/shipped with the qemu-kvm source package.
These are the versions of those bios files blessed by upstream and
known to work. It's what upstream would prefer that we used, as these
are tested with the qemu-kvm
I uploaded qemu-kvm_0.12.3-0ubuntu5~ppa1_source.changes to my PPA at:
* https://edge.launchpad.net/~kirkland/+archive/ppa/+packages
If anyone affected by this bug could try that package and post their
results, that would be very helpful.
Thanks,
:-Dustin
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OK. Just installed it. Please be aware that there is a conflict with
current vgabios seabios, which have to be uninstalled (which cause qemu
to be uninstalled also). But a bit of a dance around apt-get and dpkg
gets it done.
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