On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 07:26:50PM -0000, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > The only users positively affected by the new upload are those that > want to use kvm or qemu with the -vga std option. This VGA mode adds > higher resolutions to the SDL window than the default cirrus driver > (which only allows up to 1024x768). I can confirm that the current > vgabios is broken for -vga std, and is working with the pending > upload. > > Most users of kvm/qemu either don't use SDL at all (ie, they are using > virt-manager, virsh, or Eucalyptus to launch VMs), and of the > remaining users that do launch KVM from the command line and SDL, most > of those are probably just using the default cirrus driver. Thus, I > suspect that the affect users of this problem are a vocal minority.
The emulated video card and the output type are orthogonal. You can just as easily be using VNC with -vga std as you can use SDL with the default cirrus. Any of combination of output type (sdl, vnc, or none) and emulated video card (cirrus (default), vmware and "std-vga") is possible. Indeed, libvirt allows any of these combinations. >> vgabios has two reverse-dependencies in lucid: qemu-common and bochs. >> Has anyone regression-tested this for bochs? > I suspect that the bochs package can possibly be dropped from the > archive. I think qemu was the only user of bochs previously, and > upstream QEMU has switched away from bochs to seabios and vgabios > instead. This needs to be investigated a bit more (perhaps a post on > ubuntu-devel, in case anyone else knows of what in Lucid might still > require bochs. I see no reason to drop bochs. It's a project in its own right. -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- kvm with -vga std is broken since karmic https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/513273 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
