[Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU 0.8.1 and vnc

[Anthony Liguori]

Ben Taylor wrote:
> I'm seeing quite a few bugs on Qemu 0.8.1 with the vnc feature
>
> 1) Sparc based system comes up in distored colors (foreground of a Damn Small 
> linux
> iso comes up in yellow, instead of white)
>   

This is a know problem.  qemu doesn't give any indication that the guest 
is storing pixels in big endian mode.  A proper fix is on my TODO list.

> 2) When it bounces from the initial syslinux text to the grahpical screen, it 
> leaves the text
> in the top left corner not cleared. (to the boot: at the bottom)
>   

Yeah, I've noticed something similar myself.  It's on the TODO list (see 
vnc.c).

> 3) screen autoresize is not working.  2 examples with DSL. 
>     a) initial screen is 80x25, but qemu comes up in 80x24 and stays there and I can't 
>          see "boot:" prompt at the bottom.
>     b) when it goes into graphical mode,  it's not resizing so I'm missing some 
> portion of
>          the screen
>   

TightVNC doesn't support the desktop resize encoding.  Try RealVNC.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Host is solaris 9/sparc and solaris 11/x86, viewer is tightvnc V 1.2.8 on 
> solaris 11/x86.
>
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