Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/8] qemu-ga: add support for Windows

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 01:43:42PM -0200, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> "Kevin O'Connor" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 05:16:27PM -0200, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > > On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:23:05 -0600
> > > Michael Roth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > I'd been tracking Gerd's QMP wakeup series as the s3 resolution we need 
> > > > for guest-suspend, is that still the case?
> > > 
> > > Yes. But now I remembered about a seabios bug with S3... Need to check if
> > > it were already addressed.
> > 
> > I'm not aware of any recent S3 defects in SeaBIOS.  If there is a
> > defect, please let me know.
> > 
> > (I am aware of recent discussions on SeaBIOS and it running the
> > vgabios on s3-resume, but I would not classify that issue as a
> > defect.)
> 
> The problem is that, the screen goes black after resuming from S3. Gleb
> debugged it a bit and he said that it was caused by a change in seabios.
> 
> Please, take a look at the last three comments in this bz:
> 
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=772614

Perhaps a semantic distinction, but I don't consider that to be a
seabios defect.

In any case, I don't think this was addressed.  Gerd published a patch
that can address this in qemu:
http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2012-January/002944.html

-Kevin