From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Harald Braumann Subject: Re: Windows guest freezes with black screen Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:26:22 +0100 Message-ID: <20100304002622.GC16481@nn.nn> References: <20100302163319.GA23709@nn.nn> <201003021055.46301.iggy@theiggy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Jackson Return-path: Received: from ns.km10614-05.keymachine.de ([87.118.102.170]:58684 "EHLO km10614-05.keymachine.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752331Ab0CDA00 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 Mar 2010 19:26:26 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201003021055.46301.iggy@theiggy.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:55:45AM -0600, Brian Jackson wrote: > On Tuesday 02 March 2010 10:33:19 am Harald Braumann wrote: > > > > quite often my Windows guest freezes. The window is just black > > and it uses 100% CPU. > > Have you tried to reproduce without vmware vga? That support was developed > against the linux drivers (and possibly some loose specifications) and has had > known issues in the past. It would at least be a data point of where to look. So far no freezes with `-vga std'. So there is a very high probability that vmware is the culprit. Anyway, std works much better. Vmware had a lot of graphic glitches, like sometimes the screen wouldnt be updated and I had to move windows so they would be redrawn. Cheers, harry