<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Emre Erenoglu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erenoglu@gmail.com">erenoglu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br clear="all">
<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In my configuration, I changed the video memory parameter to reflect the following: </div><div>-vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=56623104</div><div><br></div><div>Now, it never crashes. My guest resolution is around 1440x900 32bit color.</div>
</div>-- <br>Emre<br>