On Sunday 16 Jul 2017 16:20:15 Mick wrote: > I launched a Linux Mint liveDVD in QEMU like so: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -enable-kvm -drive > if=virtio,file=Mint_18.2_HDA.qcow2,cache=none -cdrom linuxmint-18.2- > cinnamon-64bit.iso > > and noticed a warning popping up informing me Cinnamon is running without > video hardware acceleration available and everything will be rendered in > software. > > I've had a similar experience when running Cinnamon on VirtualBox on a quite > old 32bit desktop, but thought this i7 laptop + QEMU may fair better. > > Another annoying thing was the bottom of the screen was cropped off and to > see the main menu and toolbar I have to move the mouse past the bottom edge > of the window. The visual aperture is smaller than the desktop screen > size. I don't know if this in anyway related to the above warning. > > Anyway, is there a setting I could enable to have hardware acceleration on > QEMU, or have I come across a hardware limitation of this laptop? Grateful > for any pointers.
Hmm ... it seems this is also a rather old laptop: # dmesg | grep -e DMAR -e IOMMU # There is no explicit IOMMU setting in the BIOS. -- Regards, Mick
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