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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Cc: "Prasad Joshi" <prasadjoshi124@gmail.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Oswaldo Cadenas" <oswaldo.cadenas@gmail.com>,
	"André Weidemann" <Andre.Weidemann@web.de>
Subject: Re: Graphics pass-through
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:17:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D3FD89C.7050104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mTV591AMNkCVynq_BP04z_vnxn1=Dj4kPK-NA@mail.gmail.com>

   Hi,

>> The changes we made are very less, mostly disabling default QEMU VGA.
>>
>> But there are few problems that we are still working on
>> 1. The display on the monitor, probably only appears after the KMS is
>> enabled. It does not display the grub menu and booting log.
>
> Sounds like you're not enabling legacy VGA MMIO and I/O port space to
> the physical device.  Without card specific drivers, seabios and grub
> have no way to write to the screen.

There is a initialization order issue with the legacy vga memory @ 
0xa00000 and the piix3 chipset.  Booting a guest with '-vga none -device 
VGA' has the same effect (no boot messages).

cheers,
   Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26  8:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTikNHRcDquYOL3NhsxkkBYcE48nMyu4+t8t=19e7@mail.gmail.com>
2011-01-25 23:03 ` Fwd: Graphics pass-through Prasad Joshi
2011-01-26  5:12   ` Alex Williamson
2011-01-26  8:17     ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2011-01-27 11:56     ` André Weidemann
2011-01-28  0:45       ` Alex Williamson
2011-01-28 17:29         ` André Weidemann
2011-01-28 16:25           ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-05  8:50         ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-05 15:17           ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-09 11:14             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-09 14:29               ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-09 15:02                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-09 14:55               ` Prasad Joshi
2011-05-09 15:27                 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-09 15:40                   ` Prasad Joshi
2011-05-09 15:48                   ` Alex Williamson
2011-05-09 16:00                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 11:25                     ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 13:08                       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 13:26                         ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 13:50                           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 13:54                             ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 14:06                               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-11 14:14                                 ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 11:23                   ` Avi Kivity
2011-05-11 12:31                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-10 10:53                 ` Gerd Hoffmann

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