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

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Soren Hansen wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

I did provide feedback last time:

> The changes to last_ch_attr, map_addr, etc. are gratuitous and will 
> cause merge conflicts in the future.  Please change only the relevant lines.
>   

You probably didn't see it, since you have Mail-Followup-To: set to 
kvm-devel instead of yourself.  Adding you explicitly this time.

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