Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] reduce reported VGA framebuffer to 8 MiB

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

   Hi,

>> Which qemu version?  Which seabios&  vgabios version?
>
> qemu is the spice v36 branch with some unrelated patches.
> seabios + vgabios upstream (seabios with 0x9000000 size hack).
>
> I can retest with qemu upstream.

Hmm, same here.

>>
>> Windows xp booting in 4bit usually indicates VBE doesn't work at
>> all, trying to enable vesafb in linux fails too then.
>
> VBE is working fine - attached are the VBE calls made in three cases:
>   * -vga std
>   * -vga qxl with the normal 64 MB framebuffer.
>   * -vga qxl with 8 MB framebuffer (reported) (it's identical to the first)
>
> Note that this is all without the qxl driver working, but just with a windows xp install
> with no qxl drivers.

Same here, works fine.  XP with SP3 btw, maybe this makes a difference.
Can you try to boot linux with vga=0x314?

cheers,
   Gerd