From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Problems with vmwarevga and graphical syslinux menus
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:56:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D81931.5040900@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205336279.10697.41.camel@aglarond.local>
Jeremy Katz wrote:
> The changes so that the vmwarevga code respects the E820 region runs
> afoul of the fact that the VBE bios used has a hard-coded base address
> for vesa modes. Thus when syslinux uses VBE to do its graphical bits,
> the lfb address doesn't match what the bios thinks it is :-/
>
> Test case is any Fedora boot.iso or live CD from the past year or so.
>
Unfortunately, setting the BAR registers doesn't work under KVM. It
works fine in QEMU so it's probably a KVM bug. I'll look into it when I
get a chance.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Jeremy
>
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