From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Problems with vmwarevga and graphical syslinux menus Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:56:01 -0500 Message-ID: <47D81931.5040900@us.ibm.com> References: <1205336279.10697.41.camel@aglarond.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel To: Jeremy Katz Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1205336279.10697.41.camel@aglarond.local> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Jeremy Katz wrote: > The changes so that the vmwarevga code respects the E820 region runs > afoul of the fact that the VBE bios used has a hard-coded base address > for vesa modes. Thus when syslinux uses VBE to do its graphical bits, > the lfb address doesn't match what the bios thinks it is :-/ > > Test case is any Fedora boot.iso or live CD from the past year or so. > Unfortunately, setting the BAR registers doesn't work under KVM. It works fine in QEMU so it's probably a KVM bug. I'll look into it when I get a chance. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Jeremy > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > kvm-devel mailing list > kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/