Re: [Qemu-devel] vmwarevga regression (broken with two Linux and FreeBSD guests)

[Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com>]

On Friday 04 April 2008 01:44:42 pm andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 04/04/2008, Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Can you try with the above patch reverted and this one:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-02/msg00415.html
> applied in place of it?  The one I applied was supposed to be
> equivalent but I likely screwed it up.
>
> I would love to test it myself but I won't have an opportunity for the
> moment.

I'll try in a few hours.
Thanks much...