On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 11:49:56AM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 10:24:07AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > On 12/17/2011 09:25 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > >On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 09:22:45AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > >>I've even further narrowed it down to the presents or lack of '-vga > > >>cirrus'. If you add '-vga cirrus' to the above command line, the > > >>guest will boot successfully. > > > > > >Confirmed: Adding -vga cirrus to the command line cures it too. > > > > > >That's a strange one :-) > > > > vga sticks out a bit because it's one of the few places where we > > treat device memory as ram as a performance optimization. > > > > The only time vga has been touched in between v0.15 and v1.0 was > > during the introduction of the memory API. > > > > It's this commit: > > > > commit d67c3f2cd92aed2247bfa8a9da61a902b7b2ff09 > > Author: Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> > > Date: Wed Aug 10 17:34:13 2011 +0200 > > > > seabios: update to master > > This looks like the same issue reported at: > > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-10/msg00029.html > > The SeaBIOS fix for this was in rel-1.6.3.1 - but that didn't make > QEmu 1.0. Does the problem go away if you upgrade to the newer > SeaBIOS version?
Yes, SeaBIOS upstream + qemu 1.0 does fix the problem. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v
