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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmwarevga regression (broken with two Linux and
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Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 19:12:59 -0500
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On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:10:24 pm Juergen Lock wrote:
> Hmm.  Looks like the latest vmwarevga commits broke *ix/xorg guests.
> I tested the 2008-03-11 cvs snapshot with
> sidux-2008-01-200803010113-nyx_pre1-kde-lite-i386.iso (debian sid based
> Linux livecd) and FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso (FreeBSD based livecd),
> on sidux xorg said:
>
> (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xf0000000 e: 0xf07fffff correcting
...
>  Just thought I'd mention... :)
> 	Juergen

any word on this?
I can also report the same result on W2K & WXP guests (both using drivers from 
most recent vmware-workstation release).
in windows' device manager there is a similar message about that memory 
address.

I reverted this patch, which restored a working vmware vga device
http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/hw/vmware_vga.c?cvsroot=qemu&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
however, with this patch reverted I get occasional triple-faults.

Regretably, with the time available to me, I've not yet been able to get a 
deep enough grasp to do any useful debugging...but I'd be happy to test 
anything out...