Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU 0.8.1 and vnc

["andrzej zaborowski" <balrog@zabor.org>]

Hi,

On 12/05/06, Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org> wrote:
> On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 09:06:20AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Ben Taylor wrote:
> > >I'm seeing quite a few bugs on Qemu 0.8.1 with the vnc feature
> > >
> > >1) Sparc based system comes up in distored colors (foreground of a Damn
> > >Small linux
> > >iso comes up in yellow, instead of white)
> > >
> >
> > This is a know problem.  qemu doesn't give any indication that the guest
> > is storing pixels in big endian mode.  A proper fix is on my TODO list.
> >
> > >2) When it bounces from the initial syslinux text to the grahpical screen,
> > >it leaves the text
> > >in the top left corner not cleared. (to the boot: at the bottom)
> > >
> >
> > Yeah, I've noticed something similar myself.  It's on the TODO list (see
> > vnc.c).
> >
> > >3) screen autoresize is not working.  2 examples with DSL.
> > >    a) initial screen is 80x25, but qemu comes up in 80x24 and stays there
> > >    and I can't see "boot:" prompt at the bottom.
> > >    b) when it goes into graphical mode,  it's not resizing so I'm missing
> > >    some portion of
> > >         the screen
> > >
> >
> > TightVNC doesn't support the desktop resize encoding.  Try RealVNC.
>
> I am running the current CVS code and seeing endian color problems with
> a x86 machine running qemu and a PPC linux machine running
> xrealvncviewer.
>
> This is the debian xvncviewer package version 3.3.7-7.
>
> Also, how does one get to the qemu console with the vnc?
>

Currently you need to either apply this patch:
http://www.zabor.org/balrog/qemu-curses-etc.patch
which will add switching consoles the SDL way (ctrl-alt-number) or run
qemu with "-monitor stdio", and the monitor will then accept commands
from the terminal in which qemu was started.

> The vnc server also seems to occasionally send invalid vnc packets, and
> the screen resize does not seem to work. Included is a log of starting up
> and exiting because a bad message.. The bad message problem occurs with
> Chicken of the VNC on MacOS X as well.
>
>
> VNC viewer version 3.3.7 - built Sep 25 2004 21:02:46
> Copyright (C) 2002-2003 RealVNC Ltd.
> Copyright (C) 1994-2000 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge.
> See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.
> VNC server supports protocol version 3.3 (viewer 3.3)
> No authentication needed
> Desktop name "QEMU"
> Connected to VNC server, using protocol version 3.3
> VNC server default format:
>   32 bits per pixel.
>   Least significant byte first in each pixel.
>   True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8 blue 0
> Using default colormap and visual, TrueColor, depth 24.
> Got 256 exact BGR233 colours out of 256
> Using BGR233 pixel format:
>   8 bits per pixel.
>   True colour: max red 7 green 7 blue 3, shift red 0 green 3 blue 6
> Throughput 20000 kbit/s - changing to Hextile
> Throughput 20000 kbit/s - changing from 8bit
> Using viewer's native pixel format:
>   32 bits per pixel.
>   Most significant byte first in each pixel.
>   True colour: max red 255 green 255 blue 255, shift red 16 green 8 blue 0
> Rect too large: 69x1 at (705, 577)
>
>
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Greetings,
Andrew
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