Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/29]: vmsvga: Various fixes and enhancements

[Liran Alon <liran.alon@oracle.com>]

> On 10 Aug 2018, at 13:14, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 02:46:13PM +0300, Liran Alon wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> This patch series aim to fix many issues in vmware-svga emulation
>> which have prevented it from being fully functional in a wide-variety
>> of guests.
> 
> Nice job in modernizing the vmware svga emulation.
> 
> What guests this was tested with?  I've tried Fedora 28.  The vmware kms
> driver loads fine, fbcon runs fine.  Nice.

This was tested with a wide-variety of various Windows versions & Linux distributions
which we have encountered that had issues with current vmware-svga emulation.
If it’s important, we can provide the exact test-matrix we have run against this code.

> 
> But gdm doesn't start, neither with X11 nor with wayland.  Which is a
> regression, because the xorg vmware driver manages to handle the current
> qemu emulation just fine so gnome @ X11 works.

Interesting. Thanks for finding this out. Will have a look.
Can you give more exact details about how you reproduced this issue?
I prefer to have a similar setup to make sure we have fixed the regression in this series.

> 
> cheers,
>  Gerd
> 

Thanks for the detailed review and feedback.
-Liran