Re: [Qemu-devel] vmwarevga regression (broken with two Linux and FreeBSD guests)

[andrzej zaborowski]

Hi,

On 04/04/2008, Rick Vernam <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 March 2008 04:10:24 pm Juergen Lock wrote:
>  > Hmm.  Looks like the latest vmwarevga commits broke *ix/xorg guests.
>  > I tested the 2008-03-11 cvs snapshot with
>  > sidux-2008-01-200803010113-nyx_pre1-kde-lite-i386.iso (debian sid based
>  > Linux livecd) and FreeSBIE-2.0.1-RELEASE.iso (FreeBSD based livecd),
>  > on sidux xorg said:
>  >
>  > (WW) ****INVALID MEM ALLOCATION**** b: 0xf0000000 e: 0xf07fffff correcting
>
> ...
>
> >  Just thought I'd mention... :)
>  >       Juergen
>
>
> any word on this?
>  I can also report the same result on W2K & WXP guests (both using drivers 
> from
>  most recent vmware-workstation release).
>  in windows' device manager there is a similar message about that memory
>  address.
>
>  I reverted this patch, which restored a working vmware vga device
>  
> http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/qemu/hw/vmware_vga.c?cvsroot=qemu&r1=1.7&r2=1.8
>  however, with this patch reverted I get occasional triple-faults.

Can you try with the above patch reverted and this one:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2008-02/msg00415.html
applied in place of it?  The one I applied was supposed to be
equivalent but I likely screwed it up.

I would love to test it myself but I won't have an opportunity for the moment.
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