Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 609460
Graphical anomalies under KDE in KVM virtual machine
Last modified: 2015-03-01 22:59:03 EST
Description of problem: There are at least two graphical anomalies under KDE in vritual machine: 1. Image corruption in khtml-related applications such as konqueror, khelpcenter 2. Some images seems to have shifted hue (e.g. the Air wallpaper don't appear blue, but yellow instead). SEE ATTACHED SCREENSHOT Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): host: kernel-firmware-2.6.32-37.el6.noarch kernel-headers-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64 kernel-2.6.32-37.el6.x86_64 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.7-17.el6.x86_64 xorg-x11-drv-intel-2.11.0-6.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.8.1-12.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.90.el6.x86_64 qemu-kvm-tools-0.12.1.2-2.90.el6.x86_64 guest: kernel-firmware-2.6.32-30.el6.noarch kernel-2.6.32-30.el6.i686 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.7.7-2.el6.i686 xorg-x11-drv-cirrus-1.3.2-1.1.el6.i686 How reproducible: tried on lenovo thinkpad t400 and hp elitoBook 8440p Steps to Reproduce: 1. install virt-manager 2. install latest (i386) rhel as a virtual machine with KDE environment 3. start kde session on the virtual machine 4. start konqueror and verify image corruption 5. start both [eog | okular] /usr/share/wallpapers/Air/contents/images/1024x768.jpg and verify different colors (should be blue) Actual results: see attached screenshot Expected results: no image corruption in konqueror, Air wallpaper should appear blue in okular
Created attachment 427954 [details] graphics anomalities
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if you take a screenshot inside the VM and copy it out and view it somewhere is the corruption still there? just want to rule out the vnc stuff.
The image corruption is still visible, if the screenshot is copied from the VM, i.e. the background image color is shifted, images are still corrupted. 2 attachments added
Created attachment 431179 [details] screenshot from guest VM
Created attachment 431180 [details] screenshot from host machine
This is not an X bug. This is two distinct bugs, probably in QtImage or whatever it's called these days. In the 1024x768 wallpaper image, the top-left pixel is #06b0fe, but okular is rendering it as #feb006. No idea _why_ it would be doing that, since the channel masks in qemu's cirrus device are not swizzled relative to a normal desktop, but there you go. In the konqueror screenshot, RHEL6beta_720x60.jpg is clearly stretched by about 4/3 horizontally. Since the emulated cirrus device is 24bpp, this is almost certainly a case of the jpeg being expanded to a 32bpp buffer in memory and then uploaded without stripping out the padding channel. Reassigning to qt.
glxgears has the same problem like in konqueror.
As we're past Snap8 for packages for RHEL-6 now we require blocker flags for bugs. This bug doesn't qualify as a blocker, so we're moving it to RHEL-6.1 for further review and/or fixing. Than has found a possibly fix for the color issue from the first screenshot. He wants to double check with Trolltech first though and discuss with them (upstream) whether this is the right fix. We aim to release the final fix for 6.1 then. As mentioned in the previous comment we believe though that the second problem is actually the same as the glxgears one, at least the visual errors are strikingly similar. We'll clone this bug for that specific issue then and reassign it to Mesa/GL tomorrow. So we can provide a fixed Qt version, but as it isn't really blocking installations and/or working with installations we're targetting Thanks & regards, Phil
Could you try KVM machine with wmvga video instead of cirrus? It works for me - seems like there's some breakage between Qt and Cirrus driver (or even some broken stuff in KVM Cirrus video implementation?).
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This request was evaluated by Red Hat Engineering for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Red Hat does not currently plan to provide this change in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux update release for currently deployed products. In this specific case the issue has been investigated by Red Hat Engineering and upstream Qt development. The cause of the issue is that the default emulated graphics card in qemu-kvm, a Cirrus CLGD 5446 PCI VGA card doesn't support 32bpp buffer which causes those anomalies. This can be worked around by using the QXL graphics driver. With the goal of minimizing risk of change for deployed systems, and in response to customer and partner requirements, Red Hat takes a conservative approach when evaluating enhancements for inclusion in maintenance updates for currently deployed products. The primary objectives of update releases are to enable new hardware platform support and to resolve critical defects. However, Red Hat will further review this request for potential inclusion in future major releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
*** Bug 614801 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***