Re: Unable to get QXL vga working / videomem over 4MB issue

[Fantu <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>]

Fantu wrote
> 
> 
> Anthony PERARD-2 wrote
>> 
>> On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@> wrote:
>>> Anthony -- any idea why the videoram setting doesn't work with upstream
>>> qemu?
>> 
>> Well, the parameter could be pass to qemu qxl, but it's not yet. But
>> then, it seams you have to have this value of at least 32MB, otherwise
>> the value is increase in qemu.
>> 
>> For cirrus/stdvga, there is no way to pass the parameter to qemu, the
>> size in qemu is fixed to 8MB.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Anthony PERARD
>> 
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> I have already tried -global qxl-vga.vram_size for setting more videoram
> on qxl but not work,have always 4 mb, also with qemu-upstream unstable,
> the default code in qemu should have 64 mb and minimum 16 mb, why and
> where it sets 4 mb?
> Now I will try also with 1.1-rc0 and seabios 1.7.0.
> 
I did other tests with new build (see 
http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/Test-result-of-xen-unstable-changeset-25259-td5691153.html
here  for detail)

Precise domU start but X crash, same error also with Wheezy with more update
package include qxl driver
Here some details:
-------------------------------
PRECISEHVM.cfg
--------
name='PRECISEHVM'
builder="hvm"
memory=1024
#maxmem=1536
vcpus=2
hap=1
pae=1
acpi=1
apic=1
nx=1
vif=['bridge=xenbr0']
#vfb=['vnc=1,vncunused=1,vnclisten="0.0.0.0",keymap="it"']
#disk=['/mnt/vm/disks/PRECISEHVM.disk1.xm,raw,hda,rw',
'/dev/sr0,raw,hdb,ro,cdrom']
disk=['/mnt/vm/disks/PRECISEHVM.disk1.xm,raw,hda,rw']
boot='c'
xen_platform_pci=1
device_model_version='qemu-xen'
#vnc=1
#vncunused=1
#vnclisten="0.0.0.0"
#keymap="it"
stdvga=0
spice=1
spicehost='0.0.0.0'
spiceport=6000
spicedisable_ticketing=1
#device_model_args=["-device","qxl-vga","-global","qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432"]
device_model_args=["-vga","qxl"]
videoram=128
-------------------------------
Full X log:  http://xen.1045712.n5.nabble.com/file/n5691285/Xorg.0.log
Xorg.0.log 

I also tried to remove videoram parameter but not start
-------------------------------
xl create /etc/xen/PRECISEHVM.cfg
Parsing config file /etc/xen/PRECISEHVM.cfg
xc: info: VIRTUAL MEMORY ARRANGEMENT:
  Loader:        0000000000100000->000000000019dc88
  TOTAL:         0000000000000000->000000003f800000
  ENTRY ADDRESS: 0000000000100000
xc: info: PHYSICAL MEMORY ALLOCATION:
  4KB PAGES: 0x0000000000000200
  2MB PAGES: 0x00000000000001fb
  1GB PAGES: 0x0000000000000000
libxl: error: libxl_qmp.c:687:libxl__qmp_initialize: Connection error:
Connection refused
libxl: error: libxl_exec.c:200:libxl__wait_for_offspring: Device Model died
during startup
libxl: error: libxl_create.c:709:do_domain_create: device model did not
start: -1
-------------------------------
/var/log/xen/qemu-dm-PRECISEHVM.log
-------------------------
do_spice_init: starting 0.10.1
spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_MIGRATION
spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_KEYBOARD
spice_server_add_interface: SPICE_INTERFACE_MOUSE
qemu: hardware error: xen: failed to populate ram at 3f800000
CPU #0:
EAX=00000000 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000633
ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=00000000
EIP=0000fff0 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=0
ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
CS =f000 ffff0000 0000ffff 00009b00
SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
DS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200
TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00
GDT=     00000000 0000ffff
IDT=     00000000 0000ffff
CR0=60000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=00000000 DR1=00000000 DR2=00000000 DR3=00000000
DR6=ffff0ff0 DR7=00000400
EFER=0000000000000000
FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00001f80
FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000
FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000
FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000
FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000
XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000
CPU #1:
EAX=00000000 EBX=00000000 ECX=00000000 EDX=00000633
ESI=00000000 EDI=00000000 EBP=00000000 ESP=00000000
EIP=0000fff0 EFL=00000002 [-------] CPL=0 II=0 A20=1 SMM=0 HLT=1
ES =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
CS =f000 ffff0000 0000ffff 00009b00
SS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
DS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
FS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
GS =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00009300
LDT=0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008200
TR =0000 00000000 0000ffff 00008b00
GDT=     00000000 0000ffff
IDT=     00000000 0000ffff
CR0=60000010 CR2=00000000 CR3=00000000 CR4=00000000
DR0=00000000 DR1=00000000 DR2=00000000 DR3=00000000
DR6=ffff0ff0 DR7=00000400
EFER=0000000000000000
FCW=037f FSW=0000 [ST=0] FTW=00 MXCSR=00001f80
FPR0=0000000000000000 0000 FPR1=0000000000000000 0000
FPR2=0000000000000000 0000 FPR3=0000000000000000 0000
FPR4=0000000000000000 0000 FPR5=0000000000000000 0000
FPR6=0000000000000000 0000 FPR7=0000000000000000 0000
XMM00=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM01=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM02=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM03=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM04=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM05=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM06=00000000000000000000000000000000
XMM07=00000000000000000000000000000000
-------------------------------

videoram seems reserve the ram and from X log QXL videoram seems to be at
correct size but probably qemu can't use it.

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