From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhpXc-0002KP-UJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:17:28 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhpXc-0002Ju-AZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:17:28 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhpXc-0002Jd-4y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:17:28 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([88.191.38.19]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhpXb-00054E-Mr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:17:28 -0400 Received: from volta.aurel32.net ([2002:52e8:2fb:1:21e:8cff:feb0:693b]) by hall.aurel32.net with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JhpXa-0002s1-F7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:17:26 +0200 Received: from aurel32 by volta.aurel32.net with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JhpXi-0006Z2-4A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:17:34 +0200 Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:17:34 +0200 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmwarevga regression (broken with two Linux and FreeBSD guests) Message-ID: <20080404171734.GA25060@volta.aurel32.net> References: <20080312211024.GA34862@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <200804031912.59943.rickv@hobi.com> <9b0d5f320804040459s1ed44332t6c1748c58a9d1293@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9b0d5f320804040459s1ed44332t6c1748c58a9d1293@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:59:02AM -0400, WaxDragon wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Rick Vernam wrote: > > On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:10:24 pm Juergen Lock wrote: > > > Hmm. Looks like the latest vmwarevga commits broke *ix/xorg guests. > > > I tested the 2008-03-11 cvs snapshot with > > > sidux-2008-01-200803010113-nyx_pre1-kde-lite-i386.iso (debian sid based > > > Linux livecd) and FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso (FreeBSD based livecd), > > > on sidux xorg said: > > > > > > (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xf0000000 e: 0xf07fffff correcting > > ... > > > > > Just thought I'd mention... :) > > > Juergen > > > > any word on this? > > I can also report the same result on W2K & WXP guests (both using drivers from > > most recent vmware-workstation release). > > in windows' device manager there is a similar message about that memory > > address. > > > > I reverted this patch, which restored a working vmware vga device > > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/hw/vmware_vga.c?cvsroot=qemu&r1=1.7&r2=1.8 > > however, with this patch reverted I get occasional triple-faults. > > Confirmed, reverting hw/vmware_vga.c to r4022 restores x.org and > framebuffer functionality. > I have just fixed an obvious bug. Please test if it fixes the problem. -- .''`. Aurelien Jarno | GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 : :' : Debian developer | Electrical Engineer `. `' aurel32@debian.org | aurelien@aurel32.net `- people.debian.org/~aurel32 | www.aurel32.net