On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 01:45:39PM +0400, Emre Erenoglu wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Emre Erenoglu <ereno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I started to see frequent crashes with my guests running windows xp and > > windows server 2003 x86. The bsod appears on qxldd.dll. I can give further > > info if needed. > > > > The host is Linux x86_64, qemu 0.14, spice 0.8.1. Guest has qxl 0.6.1 > > drivers loaded. I may revert back to 0.8.0 since it was not crashing. > > Nothing changed in the guests when I upgraded spice from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1. > > > > > Some updates on the original issue. I checked a lot and I found out that the > issue continued with any version of spice and guest qxl drivers. > > I finally digged down to the point that, the qemu comment line which states > " -global qxl-vga.vram_size=9xxxxxx " parameter is the problem. When the > guest is started with 9 MB of video memory given as comment line parameter > to qemu, the guest qxldd driver crashes with BSOD.
Why was it started with 9MB? anyway, good catch, we should add a check for this in the driver (and probably just refuse to load). Could you open a bug on this in bugzilla.freedesktop.org? > > In my configuration, I changed the video memory parameter to reflect the > following: > -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=56623104 > > Now, it never crashes. My guest resolution is around 1440x900 32bit color. > -- > Emre > _______________________________________________ > Spice-devel mailing list > Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
