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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Question about hvmloader, vgabios and qxl problem
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:26:39 +0000
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On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 09:09 +0100, Fantu wrote:

> I am currently looking hvmloader and vgabios, apparently they did not
> provide support for qxl and more videoram, so maybe the problem is there.

> Vgabios is not updated to last version with qxl support, is used by qemu
> upstream and need to be updated?

VGA BIOS is not used with SeaBIOS (and therefore not used with upstream
qemu), it is only used with ROMBIOS. SeaBIOS loads any option ROMs
directly from the (emulated) hardware devices (like a real BIOS would).

Ian.