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Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 09:52:35 +0100
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga qxl
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 08:15:35PM +0200, 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/
> 
> Patches are all upstream, so just fetching the latest seabios bits
> (git master branch) and building yourself will work too.

Great, is there an intention to rebase Seabios in QEMU to pull this in
before the release of 0.15 ?

Regards,
Daniel
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