Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga qxl

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:03:10AM -0500, Rick Vernam wrote:
> it seems that qxl is not working correctly with any of the 0.15 releases thus 
> far.  this includes qemu and qemu-kvm.
> 
> when I start qemu like so:
> qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 768 -usb -vga qxl -monitor stdio
> I get a black screen.

I recently had black screen problems with QXL in 0.14.x that turned out to
actually be a Seabios bug due to the default 64MB vram QXL has. I suspect
this would hit 0.15.x builds too. If this is what you're hitting, then
reducing the vram to 32MB is a temporary workaround that should help, eg

   -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 


> when I start with -vga std:
> qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 768 -usb -vga std -monitor stdio
> I see the seabios screen, etc.
> 
> qemu has been configured like
> ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-curses  --disable-curl --
> audio-drv-list=alsa --audio-card-list=sb16,ac97,hda --disable-bluez --enable-
> vhost-net --enable-spice
> 
> I've also configured with --disable-vnc and --disable-opengl with the same 
> results
> 
> Am I using this wrong, or is this a bug?


Regards,
Daniel
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