Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: qemu: fix vga screendump

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2008/7/20 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
>   
>> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>     
>>> 2008/7/20 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
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>>>>         
>>>>> 2008/7/20 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
>>>>>  With -no-graphic there's no ds->data, or it can have lower bpp than
>>>>> what's otherwise available.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> Screen dumping with -no-graphic probably should just show a black screen
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> I thought this was the main use case. You shouldn't need sdl installed
>>> to perform the tests Avi talked about.
>>>
>>>       
>> You could still just do -vnc none to achieve the same effect.
>>     
>
> What I mean is it should be totally independent of that and of X on
> host, if you want to perform comparisons on the bitmaps (and for
> various other reasons).
>   

-vnc none gives a consistent depth of 32-bit.

FWIW, I have a different approach to doing what Avi describes that uses 
a VNC client.  The advantage of this is that you can have a lot more 
control over the pixel format to avoid this sort of problem in the first 
place.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori