From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhCSm-0002RZ-RK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:01:10 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhCSh-00048s-1V for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:01:04 -0500 Received: from v220110690675601.yourvserver.net ([37.221.199.173]:38231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VhCSg-00048b-Rq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 01:00:58 -0500 Message-ID: <5285B88D.4080002@weilnetz.de> Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:00:45 +0100 From: Stefan Weil MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <51F6927E.5040202@weilnetz.de> <52854157.7050908@weilnetz.de> In-Reply-To: <52854157.7050908@weilnetz.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [BUG] GTK terminal is broken List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel Cc: Anthony Liguori 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