From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52052) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFyeY-0006TS-K5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 05:43:39 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFyeU-0000Wz-Sj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 05:43:38 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45416) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gFyeQ-0000V0-Gj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 05:43:32 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx04.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.14]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1FD983001FB6 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:43:27 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:43:14 +0100 From: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= Message-ID: <20181026094314.GE31390@redhat.com> Reply-To: Daniel =?utf-8?B?UC4gQmVycmFuZ8Op?= References: <20181025085256.20522-1-kraxel@redhat.com> <20181025085256.20522-4-kraxel@redhat.com> <20181025203758.GA29995@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Cole Robinson Cc: Gerd Hoffmann , libvir-list@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Prasad J Pandit On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Cole Robinson wrote: > On 10/25/2018 09:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrang=C3=A9 wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:52:56AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > While being at it deprecate cirrus too. > > >=20 > > > Reason (short version): use stdvga instead. > > > Verbose version: > > > https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-consider= ed-harmful > >=20 > > Every single one of my guests is using cirrus. This wasn't an explici= t > > choice on my part, so I believe it is being used as the default in > > virt-install. > >=20 >=20 > virt-manager/virt-install 2.0.0 will never explicitly set cirrus, but t= hat > release is quite new. The previous release's default for x86 was roughl= y: >=20 > if using spice graphics: > use qxl > elif guest os is windows: > use vga > else: > use cirrus >=20 > It was definitely sub optimal. Maybe your virt-install commands were > explicitly setting --graphics vnc which would trigger cirrus in that ca= se. Yep, I've always tended to use vnc, since QXL has historically been a pretty buggy & unreliable device model with guests often breaking. Regards, Daniel --=20 |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberran= ge :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.c= om :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberran= ge :|