KDE4.0 Rawhide in Qemu - cirrus driver and QEMU

Mark Bidewell mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu
Fri Feb 8 13:55:01 UTC 2008


I hate replying to my own email...but  This was with both KVM and QEMU 0.9.1

On 2/8/08, Mark Bidewell <mark.bidewell at alumni.clemson.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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