Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vga: add sr_vbe register set

[Thomas Lamprecht <thomas@lamprecht.org>]

Hi,

On 05/17/2016 12:50 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>>> This way we can allow guests update sr[] registers as they want, without
>>> allowing them disrupt vbe video modes that way.
>> Just documenting my test with the patch here:
>>
>> This fixes the issue with QEMU 2.5.1.1 but only if I'm using SeaBIOS.
>>
>> OVMF leads to a almost similar result as without the patch, after
>> "windows is loading files" the "Starting Windows" appears short then
>>  hangs then the screen remains blank, so the blank screen is new with OVMF.
> Doesn't reproduce here.
>
> Details please:  Which ovmf version?  With/without csm?  32/64 bit
> windows version?

I tested with:

edk2.git-ovmf-x64-0-20151117.b1317.g386cdfb.noarch.rpm
$ git show 386cdfb
commit 386cdfbecbbacb600ffc8e2ffa8c7af1b3855a61
Author: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Date:   Tue Nov 17 13:58:19 2015 +0000

which I used for a little while now and to see if its just my "old" OVMF
I also tested the newest version from your jenkins repo (much thanks for them!!):

git show 05b2f9c
commit 05b2f9c94e0c0b663ff2d2fb55397d8215eeb3f5
Author: Dandan Bi <dandan.bi@intel.com>
Date:   Tue May 10 18:51:44 2016 +0800

So without csm.

The OS is 64bit windows 7 professional SP1

The QEMU command for my test:

./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom W7SP1_PROFESSIONAL.iso -m 1024 -smp 2 -enable-kvm -cpu host -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=0,readonly,file=OVMF_CODE-pure-efi.fd -drive if=pflash,format=raw,unit=1,file=/tmp/OVMF_VARS.fd


Happy to provide more details/test if needed.

best regards,
Thomas