Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] GTK terminal is broken

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 14.11.2013 22:32, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> Am 29.07.2013 18:04, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>> Hello,
>>
>> maybe most developers will already have noticed that the terminal output
>> in QEMU's GTK user interface is broken. As far as I know, it never worked,
>> but as there are working alternatives, I did not care much and forgot to
>> report the issues.
>>
>> See these snapshots which show the problems with QEMU's GTK terminals:
>>
>> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo1.png
>>
>> Here the first line of the QEMUmonitor is only partially visible.
>> Tested with Cygwin/X on W64 host, QEMU running on Debian Linux.
>> Other X servers (e.g. native X on Debian Linux) don't show this problem.
>>
>>
>> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo2.png
>>
>> This shows crippled output of "help" in the QEMU monitor
>> (look for "default frequency" at the bottom of the page).
>> Tested with several X servers.
>>
>>
>> http://qemu.weilnetz.de/test/bugs/qemu-gtk-demo3.png
>>
>> This shows crippled output in the QEMU serial console.
>> The Linux kernel boot messages are hardly readable.
>> Tested with several X servers, x86 and mips kernels,
>> GTK 2 and GTK 3.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> StefanW.
>>
> This is just a reminder that the GTK terminal is still broken in QEMU 1.7.
> It only seems to work with KVM and in the monitor window, but it is
> unusable in serial consoles which are typically needed for embedded
> system emulation (ARM, MIPS, ...).
>
> For GTK, it's not a regression because it never worked. All known hosts are
> affected. The serial console remains usable with SDL or stdio.
>
> See this link for more details:
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2013-07/msg05740.html
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
> PS. For MinGW, I compile QEMU without console support because there is
> no VTE for that platform.

Sorry, I used Anthony's old e-mail address, please fix when replying.

Here is another bug with GTK (any host), this time in the framebuffer
window:

run qemu-system-i386 (BIOS only), enable tabs in the menu, disable
tabs,compare the initial window with the BIOS messages with the final
one - they differ in height.

Stefan