Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] ioemu/qemu vga: save and restore vram buffer

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 10/12/2007, Ian Jackson <address@hidden> wrote:
> The existing stdvga driver from xen-unstable tools/ioemu/hw/vga* does
> not save the emulated VGA memory contents.  The symptoms include video
> malfunction after restore, including black screen (which can often be
> fixed by asking the guest to redraw) but also missing font setup etc.
> The attached patch fixes this by saving the entire VGA memory buffer,
> just like the Xen ioemu Cirrus emulator does.

Sounds reasonable.

>
> I have reinterpreted the `is_vbe' byte, which is related to
> CONFIG_BOCHS_VBE, as a general flags word.  This enables my code to
> allow old images to be restored (albeit with loss of VGA memory), by
> using another bit in that word to indicate whether the VGA memory dump
> is present.

You can use the version_id parameter for that. Increase the value
passed to register_savevm and load the vram only if version_id >= 2.

Regards