Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> writes: > Bjørn Mork wrote: >> >> The modes were once added to KVMs local copy of vgabios: >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git;a=commitdiff;h=ebfac597cf >> but never made it upstream or into QEMU.
I have to correct myself here. The patch has made it upstream http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/vgabios/vbetables-gen.c?root=vgabios&r1=1.4&r2=1.5 and is part of the latest release. > I too noticed that the list of video modes available is quite a bit > shorter than it used to be, but at that time I were dealing with > another bug and didn't pay enough attention to that fact, and it > were "successfully" forgotten. But without your findings it'd be > much more difficult to find and fix things. > > I'm adding the thing to the Debian qemu-kvm git repository now, to > be fixed in the next release. I'm afraid my primitive approach is not the proper way to fix it. qemu-kvm should depend on vgabios and just install symlinks as qemu does: bj...@nemi:~$ ls -la /usr/share/qemu/vgabios* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2010-01-10 20:31 /usr/share/qemu/vgabios.bin -> ../vgabios/vgabios.bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2010-01-10 20:31 /usr/share/qemu/vgabios-cirrus.bin -> ../vgabios/vgabios.cirrus.bin Which is bug #489442. Fixing that one will close both bugs. BTW, I think I'm going to propose some variant of my debugging patch to qemu upstream. The "Could not open SDL display" is rather useless as a fatal error message, given how easy it is to trigger this error with a simple guest (mis)onfiguration. Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
