Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga qxl

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> I recently had black screen problems with QXL in 0.14.x that turned out to
> actually be a Seabios bug due to the default 64MB vram QXL has.

It is a seabios issue indeed.

> I suspect
> this would hit 0.15.x builds too. If this is what you're hitting, then
> reducing the vram to 32MB is a temporary workaround that should help, eg
>
>     -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vram_size=33554432

There is a fixed seabios binary @ http://spice-space.org/download/seabios/

Patches are all upstream, so just fetching the latest seabios bits (git 
master branch) and building yourself will work too.

cheers,
  Gerd