From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Alberich de megres <alberich2k5@gmail.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kvm + vmwgfx
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:17:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F8FD812.3060404@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAM2N3EdcfcBiVMMOpaxCOeUF=xu814ZBJ-V1=aXhEvFSOHJZcQ@mail.gmail.com>
On 04/19/2012 10:34 AM, Alberich de megres wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Anyone has succeed on making a kvm guest linux, say fedora 16, with
> vmwgfx driver?
> I want to make it work over dri interface, but probably without the
> x-org, it will be some testbed for wayland builds.
>
> My host is a fedora 16, with kernel 3.3.0-8, with a working dri card.
>
> I run the kvm:
> qemu-kvm -vga vmware -hda f16.kernel-3.3.1.qcow
>
> When intro the guest OS, i try to modprobe kvm, drm, ttm and last vmwgfx.
>
> I got the following output in dmesg:
> [drm:vmw_driver_load] *ERROR* Hardware has no pitchloc
>
> the probe failed with error -38
>
IIUC the vmware device emulation was based on reverse-engineering the
linux xorg driver, not on a spec. As such it may be incomplete.
You can either reverse-engineer the linux driver for the missing bits,
or ask vmware for documentation.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 9:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-19 7:34 kvm + vmwgfx Alberich de megres
2012-04-19 9:17 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2012-04-19 9:53 ` Alberich de megres
2012-04-19 9:53 ` Avi Kivity
2012-04-19 9:57 ` Alberich de megres
2012-04-19 10:27 ` Alon Levy
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