From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhkZb-0004nN-Sv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:59:11 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhkZZ-0004mP-4N for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:59:10 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhkZY-0004mM-VK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:59:09 -0400 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhkZY-0007dY-I2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:59:08 -0400 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id y26so15463ele.8 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:59:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9b0d5f320804040459s1ed44332t6c1748c58a9d1293@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 07:59:02 -0400 From: WaxDragon Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vmwarevga regression (broken with two Linux and FreeBSD guests) In-Reply-To: <200804031912.59943.rickv@hobi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080312211024.GA34862@saturn.kn-bremen.de> <200804031912.59943.rickv@hobi.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:12 PM, Rick Vernam wrote: > On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:10:24 pm Juergen Lock wrote: > > Hmm. Looks like the latest vmwarevga commits broke *ix/xorg guests. > > I tested the 2008-03-11 cvs snapshot with > > sidux-2008-01-200803010113-nyx_pre1-kde-lite-i386.iso (debian sid based > > Linux livecd) and FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso (FreeBSD based livecd), > > on sidux xorg said: > > > > (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xf0000000 e: 0xf07fffff correcting > ... > > > Just thought I'd mention... :) > > Juergen > > any word on this? > I can also report the same result on W2K & WXP guests (both using drivers from > most recent vmware-workstation release). > in windows' device manager there is a similar message about that memory > address. > > I reverted this patch, which restored a working vmware vga device > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/hw/vmware_vga.c?cvsroot=qemu&r1=1.7&r2=1.8 > however, with this patch reverted I get occasional triple-faults. Confirmed, reverting hw/vmware_vga.c to r4022 restores x.org and framebuffer functionality. > > Regretably, with the time available to me, I've not yet been able to get a > deep enough grasp to do any useful debugging...but I'd be happy to test > anything out... 4023's x.org output: http://waxdragon.homeip.net/~ford/qemu.Xorg.0.log 4022's lspci output: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64 I/O ports at c010 [size=16] Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512M] 4023's lspci output: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64 Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=8M] Memory at 20000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512M] and for reference, vmware workstation 6's lspci: 0000:00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMWare Inc [VMWare SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: VMWare Inc [VMWare SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter Flags: medium devsel I/O ports at 10a0 [size=16] Memory at f0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128M] Memory at e8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8M] Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=32K] -- 18:22 <@GreatLord> dx8 or dx9 goes over opengl 18:22 <@GreatLord> with wine warper 18:22 <@silverblade> WARP FACTOR WINE 18:25 <@WaxDragon> Set the controls for the heart of the LULS.