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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


  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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