Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/2] Make sure to enable dirty log tracking for VMware VGA

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Jordan Justen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Anthony Liguori<aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>   
>> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>     
>>> This is needed for VMware VGA to work properly under KVM.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>  hw/vmware_vga.c |    4 ++++
>>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/hw/vmware_vga.c b/hw/vmware_vga.c
>>> index bb17698..246011b 100644
>>> --- a/hw/vmware_vga.c
>>> +++ b/hw/vmware_vga.c
>>> @@ -1203,6 +1203,10 @@ static void pci_vmsvga_map_mem(PCIDevice *pci_dev,
>>> int region_num,
>>>  #endif
>>>     cpu_register_physical_memory(s->vram_base, s->vga.vram_size,
>>>                     iomemtype);
>>> +
>>> +    s->vga.map_addr = addr;
>>> +    s->vga.map_end = addr + s->vga.vram_size;
>>> +    vga_dirty_log_start(&s->vga);
>>>  }
>>>
>>>  void pci_vmsvga_init(PCIBus *bus)
>>>
>>>       
>> N.B. depth is still screwed up with VMware vga but the fix for that looks a
>> bit more non-obvious.  This VBE issue has been a long standing problem
>> though and I suspect it effects other guests though.
>>
>>     
>
> I've tried booting Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 using '-vga vmware' on various versions of
> kvm and qemu.  The result is always ok video during BIOS post, but garbage
> during pre and post X.  Would this be a symptom of the 'VBE' issue that
> you mentioned?
>   

Try the latest qemu git.  vmware vga should work there.

I'm not sure about qemu-kvm.  It depends on whether the changes survived 
the merge.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori