KDE4.0 Rawhide in Qemu - cirrus driver and QEMU

Mark Bidewell mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu
Fri Feb 8 13:36:02 UTC 2008


I actually tried vmwarevga.  however, X11 failed saying no supported vmware
SVGA II adapters were found.

Mark Bidewell


On 2/7/08, Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 01:48 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell <at> alumni.clemson.edu> writes:
> > > cirrus video driver
> >
> > Can we get this driver to claim the QEMU PCI ID by default? It's
> probably more
> > efficient than vesa and it also works around the vesa driver crash.
>
> It's actual emulation of the Cirrus chip and thus uses the Cirrus pci
> id.  But as of the alpha, the cirrus driver hadn't been fixed up for the
> libpciaccess changes in X and so we needed to fallback to vesa.  Should
> be back to using cirrus for now.
>
> Although longer term, it's probably worth spending the time to fix up
> the VMWare SVGA emulation from qemu to work with kvm... just not enough
> round tuits
>
> Jeremy
>
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