[Spice-devel] Unknown vga type: qxl

[Appiah]

Heya!

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:42 AM, <liang.liang12 at zte.com.cn> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I found when running spiced QEMU with "-vga qxl" option, it complains
> unknown vga type. My question is: is there any special patch needed to
> support "-vga qxl" option? If no, how to support this?
> BTW: I remove "-vga qxl" when running qemu, it starts up successfully. But
> I'm not sure whether QXL driver is used in this scenario.....?
> __________________________
> test2010-2-7:/opt/spice/qemu # ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -drive
> file=/home/vm/qemu.img,if=ide -soundhw ac97 -L pc-bios -nographic -spice
> port=15050,disable-ticketing -usbdevice tablet -enable-kvm -m 512 -vga qxl
> -cdrom /home/huxc/suse11.2_x86_64.iso -boot d
> Unknown vga type: qxl
>

Just got the same problem myself.

That's beacuse I forgot to "cd qemu; git checkout -b spice.v13
origin/spice.v13;" (from the build instruction page)
but since thats old I wrote  v24 instead of 13 after looking at
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/qemu.

Now it starts with -vga qxl !


>
> test2010-2-7:/opt/spice/qemu # ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64  --help
> |grep vga
> -vga [std|cirrus|vmware|xenfb|none]
> __________________________
>
> Also I checked the spiced QEMU code, there is also no corresponding qxl
> driver information.
> _______________________________
> Vl.c
> static struct {
>     const char *driver;
>     int *flag;
> } default_list[] = {
>     { .driver = "isa-serial",           .flag = &default_serial    },
>     { .driver = "isa-parallel",         .flag = &default_parallel  },
>     { .driver = "isa-fdc",              .flag = &default_floppy    },
>     { .driver = "ide-drive",            .flag = &default_cdrom     },
>     { .driver = "virtio-serial-pci",    .flag = &default_virtcon   },
>     { .driver = "virtio-serial-s390",   .flag = &default_virtcon   },
>     { .driver = "virtio-serial",        .flag = &default_virtcon   },
>     { .driver = "VGA",                  .flag = &default_vga       },
>     { .driver = "cirrus-vga",           .flag = &default_vga       },
>     { .driver = "vmware-svga",          .flag = &default_vga       },
> };
> _______________________________
>
>
> Following is my procedure to download and compile spiced QEMU:
> __________________________________
> I download latest Spiced QEMU code from spice repositories using GIT and
> compile it following the instruction from wiki(
> http://www.spice-space.org/page/Building_Instructions):
> http://www.spice-space.org/page/Building_Instructions
>    cd $SRC_ROOT/qemu
> ./configure --prefix=$INST_ROOT --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --enable-spice
> make
> __________________________________
>
> Thanks for your suggestions in advance!
>
> Thanks,
> Lyon
>
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