Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga qxl

[Rick Vernam <rickv@hobi.com>]

On Thursday 04 August 2011 13:15:35 Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>    Hi,
> 
> > I recently had black screen problems with QXL in 0.14.x that turned out
> > to actually be a Seabios bug due to the default 64MB vram QXL has.
> 
> It is a seabios issue indeed.
> 
> > I suspect
> > this would hit 0.15.x builds too. If this is what you're hitting, then
> > reducing the vram to 32MB is a temporary workaround that should help, eg
> > 
> >     -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432
> 
> There is a fixed seabios binary @ http://spice-space.org/download/seabios/
Yep, I put that bios in and removed -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 from 
the comand line, and it worked just fine.

Thanks.
> 
> Patches are all upstream, so just fetching the latest seabios bits (git
> master branch) and building yourself will work too.
> 
> cheers,
>    Gerd