Re: [Qemu-devel] vmwarevga regression (broken with two Linux and FreeBSD guests)

[Rick Vernam]

On Friday 04 April 2008 01:44:42 pm andrzej zaborowski wrote:
[snip]
> >  > (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xf0000000 e: 0xf07fffff
> >  > correcting
[snip]
> >
> >  I reverted this patch, which restored a working vmware vga device
> > http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/hw/vmware_vga.c?cvsroot=qemu&r1=
> >1.7&r2=1.8 however, with this patch reverted I get occasional
> > triple-faults.
>
> Can you try with the above patch reverted and this one:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-02/msg00415.html
> applied in place of it?  The one I applied was supposed to be
> equivalent but I likely screwed it up.
>

Win 2K:  newer vmware drivers do not work.  older (11.2.0.0) work just fine.

Win XP: works fine.

suse kde live cd seems to work, at least it will correctly resize the frame 
buffer up correctly - it doesn't boot all the way up, but this is likely due 
to my use of gcc4+tcg.