On Thursday 04 August 2011 11:09:30 Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 11:03:10AM -0500, Rick Vernam wrote: > > it seems that qxl is not working correctly with any of the 0.15 releases > > thus far. this includes qemu and qemu-kvm. > > > > when I start qemu like so: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 768 -usb -vga qxl -monitor > > stdio I get a black screen. > > I recently had black screen problems with QXL in 0.14.x that turned out to > actually be a Seabios bug due to the default 64MB vram QXL has. I suspect > this would hit 0.15.x builds too. If this is what you're hitting, then > reducing the vram to 32MB is a temporary workaround that should help, eg > > -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432 That took care of the black screen. Thanks.
> > > when I start with -vga std: > > qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 768 -usb -vga std -monitor > > stdio I see the seabios screen, etc. > > > > qemu has been configured like > > ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --disable-curses --disable-curl > > -- audio-drv-list=alsa --audio-card-list=sb16,ac97,hda --disable-bluez > > --enable- vhost-net --enable-spice > > > > I've also configured with --disable-vnc and --disable-opengl with the > > same results > > > > Am I using this wrong, or is this a bug? > > Regards, > Daniel
