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

[Fabrice Bellard]

malc wrote:
> 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.

I would prefer adding S3 VGA support, but it is more complicated as it 
requires PCI to be recognized correctly by most OSes.

Bochs VBE is a lot simpler to add. I'll look at it for 0.5.3 release.

Fabrice.