[Spice-devel] upstream qemu is broken wrt spice

[Alon Levy]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 09:10:37AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 03/03/2012 01:24 AM, Alon Levy wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:47:35PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >>Hi All,
> >>
> >>While rebasing my usb patches on top of upstream qemu master to send them upstream I noticed
> >>that upstream qemu is broken wrt qxl in 2 ways:
> >>1) No video output in vga mode, when booting a F-16 or F-14 vm no output is shown at all
> >>    until xorg loads
> >
> >Is that fixed when you use latest seabios?
> >
> 
> I just upgraded to seabios-1.6.3 from koji, still no go. Do I need an even newer
> one / build from git? If so what git repo should I use?
> 
> >>2) qxl mode itself is very very slow. This is not just a meh it feels a bit slower, it
> >>    is significantly and clearly visibly slower.
> >
> >can you provide more information? what version is "good" compared to
> >current master?
> 
> Sorry I've no time to investigate this further atm, too busy getting all
> usbredir bits in place. Maybe I've some time in a week but I'm hoping someone
> will have it fixed by then :)
> 
> > current master - you mean for instance commit
> >88e6c60671df4c8b1b6c1eb8f76950ab1bea0ec2 ?
> 
> Yes that is the commit I was using, well that + rebased chardev flow
> control patches, but those even come close to touching the qxl code
> paths.
> 
> Note I'm seeing this with Linux guests, and yes I've tried to upgrade
> the xorg driver to a version with the async patches.

So not with windows guests?
What version works well - I'm assuming it's a qemu version, but it could
also be a qxl driver version.

> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> 
> Hans
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