From: Harald Braumann <harry@unheit.net>
To: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Windows guest freezes with black screen
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:26:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100304002622.GC16481@nn.nn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003021055.46301.iggy@theiggy.com>
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:55:45AM -0600, Brian Jackson wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 March 2010 10:33:19 am Harald Braumann wrote:
> >
> > quite often my Windows guest freezes. The window is just black
> > and it uses 100% CPU.
>
> Have you tried to reproduce without vmware vga? That support was developed
> against the linux drivers (and possibly some loose specifications) and has had
> known issues in the past. It would at least be a data point of where to look.
So far no freezes with `-vga std'. So there is a very high probability that
vmware is the culprit. Anyway, std works much better. Vmware had a lot of
graphic glitches, like sometimes the screen wouldnt be updated and I had to
move windows so they would be redrawn.
Cheers,
harry
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-02 16:33 Windows guest freezes with black screen Harald Braumann
2010-03-02 16:55 ` Brian Jackson
2010-03-02 17:45 ` Harald Braumann
2010-03-04 0:26 ` Harald Braumann [this message]
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