Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC Segfault : was Re: Segfault installing Windows XP 32 Bit guest on Linux 64Bit host

[Brad Campbell]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> > > > Ok, this is a general VNC explosion. If I compile it with libSDL and 
> > > > run a standard SDL window over X then it works fine. As soon as I 
> > > > add -vnc :2 to the command line it blows up in the same place.
> > >
> > > Is this the latest SVN?  There was a recent SEGV fix for VNC.
> >
> > Yep
> > address@hidden:~/src/qemu$ svn up
> > At revision 4622.
> >
> > It's very easily reproducible here, I'll have some time tomorrow to 
> > look at it closer and see if I can fix it.
>
> How are you reproducing it?  With what client?

Great question. I tried the realvnc based xvncviewer and the problem did not 
occur.

address@hidden:~$ xvnc4viewer --version

VNC Viewer Free Edition 4.1.1 for X - built Apr 16 2008 13:02:40
Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd.
See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC.


This one dies horribly. Apparently on resolution change, but not certainly.. It does always die on a 
screen mode change though.

address@hidden:~$ vncviewer --version
TightVNC viewer version 1.2.9
Ubuntu package : xtightvncviewer from 8.04

I'm just building the latest tightvnc from source to see if the issue is fixed there, but 
xtightvncviewer from Ubuntu 8.04 will certainly kill it.

Brad
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