Description of problem: QEMU crashes when vmware is selected as video card to install a guest Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora11(rawhide) with virtualization support 2. Run qumu-kvm -hda <PATH TO VOL> -cdrom <PATH TO ISO> -m 1024 -boot d -vga vmware -vnc localhost:1 3. Run vncviewer localhost:1 from other terminal. See that the graphics crash
Paniraj: can you try and get a stack trace of qemu? e.g. run qemu-kvm in gdb and when it crashes run "thread apply all bt" See also http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
Mark crash here meaning, I see that the initial GUI itself is distorted. Am attaching the screen shot. This I observed when I tried installing RHEL 5.3 as guest. I was able to see this issue on multiple platforms. I don't see any stack trace.
Created attachment 343060 [details] Screenshot
Moving to qemu, because it may or may not be a vgabios bug.
Confirmed with the F11 Beta ISO and: qemu-system-x86-0.10.4-4.fc11.x86_64 vgabios-0.6-0.5.b.fc11.noarch It's 'orribly borked. It could be a guest issue too, of course.
Try toggling from full screen and back a few times. I'm able to get one visible frame per full screen/windowed cycle. Its still completely useless but it could give a hint to the problem.
This patch could potentially fix it: http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/28761/
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
I can confirm this bug under F11 GA. If I boot the guest with vga=normal, I can reach X (vmware driver under X.org), but I get a distorted X11 display. (Using either SDL or VNC) If I boot the guest with any vesa resolution (vga=0x3xx), I get a blank console. (The guest seems to continue the normal booting as normal). Check with two different guests - CentOS 5.3 and Slackware 12.2, so I doubt that it's a guest kernel issue. (Both booth just fine with vga=cirrus) - Gilboa
I'm running Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4 as a guest and Fedora 11 as the host. Get the same situation with the vmware driver. The cirrus is ok... except I get ghost images all over. Which is why I tried switching to the vmware driver. Has anyone had any luck getting this working yet?
kvm crashes on F12 running a F12 guest with -vga vmware. Here is the backtrace: (gdb) bt #0 0x0000003828c72180 in _IO_link_in_internal () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x0000003828c711fa in _IO_new_file_init () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x0000003828c65d95 in __fopen_internal () from /lib64/libc.so.6 #3 0x000000320f606817 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1 #4 0x000000320f606961 in XcursorLibraryLoadImages () from /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1 #5 0x000000320f606b4c in XcursorLibraryLoadCursor () from /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1 #6 0x000000320f6070ca in XcursorTryShapeBitmapCursor () from /usr/lib64/libXcursor.so.1 #7 0x000000320d220f30 in XCreatePixmapCursor () from /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6 #8 0x0000003834840345 in X11_CreateWMCursor (this=0x29e8060, data=<value optimized out>, mask=<value optimized out>, w=64, h=64, hot_x=<value optimized out>, hot_y=0) at src/video/x11/SDL_x11mouse.c:134 #9 0x000000383482b1ba in SDL_CreateCursor (data=<value optimized out>, mask=<value optimized out>, w=64, h=64, hot_x=0, hot_y=<value optimized out>) at src/video/SDL_cursor.c:156 #10 0x00000000004c4767 in sdl_mouse_define (width=64, height=64, bpp=32, hot_x=<value optimized out>, hot_y=<value optimized out>, image=<value optimized out>, mask=<value optimized out>) at sdl.c:801 #11 0x000000000046c0e0 in vmsvga_cursor_define (c=<value optimized out>, s=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-kvm-0.11.0/hw/vmware_vga.c:489 #12 vmsvga_fifo_run (c=<value optimized out>, s=<value optimized out>) at /usr/src/debug/qemu-kvm-0.11.0/hw/vmware_vga.c:574 #13 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
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Running a CentOS 5.4 guest under F12 with vga=vmware seems to work OK. (I even got glxgears to work!) However, when I try and run a F12/i386 guest running under F12/x86_64 I get garbage. I wonder if this bug shouldn't be filed against xorg-x11-drv-vmware. Maintainers? Either way, for now, changing to F12. - Gilboa
Update: Manually fixed the xorg.conf on the F12 guest and now I get working -vga=vmware. @Andreas Schneider, I believe you should file a different bug report concerning your crash. I believe this bug can be safely closed. Anyone else?
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