Description of problem: When using the console in text mode the background is garbled which makes the text hard to read. How reproducible: every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. start a virtual console from virt-manager 2. look at OS in text console mode Actual results: garbled background Expected results: consistent black background Additional info: Works ok in qemu console for instance.
Created attachment 154011 [details] virt-console.png
This is a bug in the QEMU VNC server I believe. I see the same kind of corruption when using a regular 'vncviewer' client. It seems to particularly occur when changing resolutions.
So it is a qemu bug?
This bug is trivially reproducable with current QEMU cvs HEAD, simply by booting the Fedora Core 6 boot.iso on i386 dd if=/dev/zero of=foo.img bs=1M count=0 seek=1024 qemu -hda foo.img -cdrom boot.iso -boot d -vnc :1 & vncviewer :1 On the very first text mode switch - from syslinux to booting the kernel, the pattern shown in #1 will be seen. I did a quick hack forward porting Xen's tools/iommu/patches/vnc-fixes patch file to work with QEMU & this solved the problem. I'll do a real forward port & send it to upstream QEMU for comment & attach a version suitable for QEMU 0.9.0
*** Bug 239990 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Thanks, closing - I think this has been fixed for a while. :)