Re: vmwarevga doesn't work: "get_dirty_pages returned -2"

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Andreas Winkelbauer wrote:
> hi,
>
> I tried using the -vmwarevga switch but I didn't succeed. I've tested it 
> with kvm-snapshot-20080218, kvm-60 and kvm-61.
>
> as soon as the VM (guest os is windows xp) switches from text mode to 
> graphics mode lots of messages "kvm: get_dirty_pages returned -2" scroll 
> by on the console. after a while (but still while boot up) the VM 
> crashes with stop error (blue screen) 0xEA (and says that something 
> might be wrong with framebuf).
>
>   

I guess it needs the same treatment as cirrus and stdvga (register the 
framebuffer with kvm as a memory slot).

> if I start the VM with -no-kvm  I don't see those messages in the 
> console. the guest os boots up, but crashes quite soon with a stop error 
> (blue screen) 0x7F.
>
> my CPU is an intel core 2 duo (mobile).
>
> uname -a output:
> Linux nbwina2.local 2.6.23.15-80.fc7 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:29:10 EST 2008 
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> i start the VM with the following command:
> su -c '/usr/local/kvm-61/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 ~/vm/xp.qcow2 -m 1024 -k 
> de -usb -localtime [-vmwarevga]'
>
> does -vmwarevga work for anyone (with windows as guest os)? what 
> information do you need to track down the issue?
>
>   

Most likely it only works with Linux; it was probably written by 
reverse-engineering the Linux driver.

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