Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: Remove qxl support for the 4.3 release

[George Dunlap]

On 19/09/13 11:01, Jan Beulich wrote:
> > > > On 19.09.13 at 11:22, Fabio Fantoni <address@hidden> wrote:
> > This is logs from xl dmesg about Quantal (ubuntu 12.10) hvm domU with
> > qxl vga and patch "x86-HVM-emul-split-large":
> >
> > > (d3) HVM Loader
> > > [...]
> So in particular no wrong mmio size messages.
>
> > qemu seem to crash at domU's xorg loading, nothing on logs about the
> > crash, only the last line added on xl dmesg above and on qemu log:
> > qemu: terminating on signal 1 from pid 8485
> >
> > I found strange things on xl dmesg logs above about domU (I put it in
> > bold and starred).
> I can't say anything about those. Once again, with qemu issues
> (and tools ones in general) i have to defer to the respective
> experts.

Fabio,

I think back when Anthony Perard looked at this, he found that there was 
a field not being initialized in qemu that caused it to crash when using 
qxl.  I think the fix was just a one-line patch -- do you have that 
patch applied to your copy of qemu?

 -George