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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: vgabios + qemu: issues and plans.
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>>> Works for stdvga and qxl. vmware fails as it has the memory at pci
>>> region 1 (region 0 has ioports) and it seems vgabios isn't prepared to
>>> handle that ...
>>
>> Do you mean vgabios currently doesn't work with qemu and "-vga vmware" ?
> 
> It works, but uses the bochs lfb at the magic address 0xe0000000.
> 
> Killing the 0xe000000 alias mapping and switching over to use the pci 
> region instead requires some changes in pci_get_lfb_addr to handle the 
> situation.

Does this only happen with VBE?

Sebastian