From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: qemu: fix vga screendump
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:56:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4883B4A8.9080402@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb249edb0807201308s7fa3d436ke06ecf91f7c0a14@mail.gmail.com>
andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> 2008/7/20 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
>
>> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/7/20 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 2008/7/20 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
>>>>> With -no-graphic there's no ds->data, or it can have lower bpp than
>>>>> what's otherwise available.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Screen dumping with -no-graphic probably should just show a black screen
>>>> anyway.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I thought this was the main use case. You shouldn't need sdl installed
>>> to perform the tests Avi talked about.
>>>
>>>
>> You could still just do -vnc none to achieve the same effect.
>>
>
> What I mean is it should be totally independent of that and of X on
> host, if you want to perform comparisons on the bitmaps (and for
> various other reasons).
>
-vnc none gives a consistent depth of 32-bit.
FWIW, I have a different approach to doing what Avi describes that uses
a VNC client. The advantage of this is that you can have a lot more
control over the pixel format to avoid this sort of problem in the first
place.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-17 21:19 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] kvm: qemu: fix screendump with multiple consoles Anthony Liguori
2008-07-17 21:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/6] kvm: qemu: force screen resize if a display buffer does not exist Anthony Liguori
2008-07-17 21:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] kvm: qemu: revert "fix power management timer overflow handling" Anthony Liguori
2008-07-17 21:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/6] kvm: qemu: revert ""QEMU keyboard issue with Gujin-2.2", by Etienne Lorrain." Anthony Liguori
2008-07-17 21:43 ` Even Rouault
2008-07-17 21:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2008-07-17 21:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-17 21:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/6] kvm: qemu: improve scsi dma speed by increasing the dma buffer size Anthony Liguori
2008-07-20 2:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-17 21:19 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] kvm: qemu: fix vga screendump Anthony Liguori
2008-07-19 14:36 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-07-20 2:33 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-20 17:07 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-07-20 18:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-20 19:28 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-07-20 19:46 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-20 20:08 ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-07-20 21:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-07-20 21:56 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-07-21 2:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2008-07-17 21:39 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/6] Various fixes from KVM tree Anthony Liguori
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