Re: [Qemu-devel] VESA VBE support in qemu?

[malc]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Josh Metzler wrote:

> I have a hard disk image with Debian Sid installed, along with XFree86 4.3 and
> KDE 3.2 beta1.  I was using this in Bochs to try out the KDE beta, and was
> hoping that I could do the same under Qemu, as it is much faster than Bochs.
> I am able to boot the harddisk image, but XFree86 fails to start up.  The log
> ends with:
>
<snip.
>
> I had no problems configuring, making, or installing qemu.  The vgabios is in
> the correct place.  Does anyone have any ideas for getting XFree86 up and
> running?

VGABios and Bochs communicate via some predefined I/O Ports to provide
VBE 1.2(or rather subset of). QEMU does not have this functionality(yet?).
So for the time being, you can not run XFree with vesa driver.

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