[Spice-devel] spice broken with upstream qemu / qemu-kvm

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> 2) I could not see the boot failing with my F-14 image and qemu-1.0rc0
> since it does not show vga graphics over spice.

Looks like text mode broke while I wasn't looking, investigating ...

> My F-16 image boots
> fine, and once it switches to X I can actually see that it has booted
> fine ...

Yea, guest once the qxl guest drivers active everything is fine ;)

> I've tried using the seabios from qemu upstream, that actually breaks
> things completely both with 0.15 and 1.0

bios binary from master branch?

> I've also tried upgrading vgabios to the new 0.7a (I've rebased
> patches for that now if you want to update the Fedora package),
> but that does not help. The new package I created does still work
> fine with qemu-0.15 ...

Oh, there is activity again in vgabios land after it was basically dead
for more than a year.

For now git://git.qemu.org/vgabios is the version to be used though.
The cvs @ savannah hasn't the bits needed for qxl.  There havn't been
changes recently though.  The binaries in the qemu repo (both stable and
master branches) and the fedora vgabios packages should all work equally
well.

cheers,
  Gerd