[Qemu-devel] qemu & vgasrc

[Qemu-devel] qemu & vgasrc

[Michael Tokarev]

How do you think, whenever it is a good idea to let
vgasrc vgabios to be used with 1.1 qemu and qemu-kvm
in the upcoming Debian stable release, codename
wheezy?

I tested pre-1.1 qemu with this vgabios when seabios
1.7.0 has been released, but obviously I can't test
all aspects of it.  For one, I didn't test migration
between, say, qemu 1.0 with boch vgabios and qemu 1.1
with vgasrc from seabios.

The problem is that current bochs vgabios does have
some.. interesting issue I mentioned way before, but
for which I still don't have a solution - basically,
it sucks when used with linux guest.

So I can give it a try, shipping qemu[-kvm] in Debian
using vgasrc instead of bochs vgabios, and can revert
that change easily too, in case of issues.

What do you think?

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu & vgasrc

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:46:30PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> How do you think, whenever it is a good idea to let
> vgasrc vgabios to be used with 1.1 qemu and qemu-kvm
> in the upcoming Debian stable release, codename
> wheezy?

I don't know of any major problems with SeaVGABIOS, but it hasn't been
tested nearly as thoroughly as the bochs vgabios.

> I tested pre-1.1 qemu with this vgabios when seabios
> 1.7.0 has been released, but obviously I can't test
> all aspects of it.  For one, I didn't test migration
> between, say, qemu 1.0 with boch vgabios and qemu 1.1
> with vgasrc from seabios.
> 
> The problem is that current bochs vgabios does have
> some.. interesting issue I mentioned way before, but
> for which I still don't have a solution - basically,
> it sucks when used with linux guest.

What problems are you facing with bochs vgabios?

-Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu & vgasrc

[Michael Tokarev]

On 13.06.2012 10:47, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:46:30PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote:
[]
> I don't know of any major problems with SeaVGABIOS, but it hasn't been
> tested nearly as thoroughly as the bochs vgabios.

Well, testing is what we can try to do.. ;)

>> The problem is that current bochs vgabios does have
>> some.. interesting issue I mentioned way before, but
>> for which I still don't have a solution - basically,
>> it sucks when used with linux guest.
> 
> What problems are you facing with bochs vgabios?

 http://bugs.debian.org/654823

I can just drop the additional resolutions for now,
it appears to be lesser of two evils...

/mjt