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From: Soren Hansen <soren@ubuntu.com>
To: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: vmwarevga doesn't work: "get_dirty_pages returned	-2"
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:12:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080222091254.GA9694@butch.linux2go.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47BD7B3B.2050500@gmx.at>


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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 02:23:07PM +0100, Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
>> Most likely it only works with Linux; it was probably written by
>> reverse-engineering the Linux driver.
> actually -vmwarevga works for me when using pure qemu (latest cvs
> snapshot) without kqemu (-no-kqemu), but it does not work with kvm
> when using -no-kvm.

This is a known issue. I've sent a patch to this list (twice, actually)
that fixes it, but for some reason, it hasn't been applied. Search for
posts from me with "vga" or something in the subject.

-- 
Soren Hansen
Virtualisation specialist
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-02-22  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-19 17:12 vmwarevga doesn't work: "get_dirty_pages returned -2" Andreas Winkelbauer
2008-02-21  9:05 ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-21  9:16   ` Alexander Graf
2008-02-21  9:28     ` Chris Wedgwood
2008-02-21 13:23   ` Andreas Winkelbauer
2008-02-22  9:12     ` Soren Hansen [this message]
2008-02-22  9:44       ` Avi Kivity
2008-02-22 10:14         ` Soren Hansen
2008-02-22 13:50       ` Andreas Winkelbauer

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