[Qemu-devel] Re: vgabios + qemu: issues and plans.

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 05/06/10 22:19, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > > Works for stdvga and qxl. vmware fails as it has the memory at pci
> > > > region 1 (region 0 has ioports) and it seems vgabios isn't prepared to
> > > > handle that ...
> > >
> > > Do you mean vgabios currently doesn't work with qemu and "-vga vmware" ?
> >
> > It works, but uses the bochs lfb at the magic address 0xe0000000.
> >
> > Killing the 0xe000000 alias mapping and switching over to use the pci
> > region instead requires some changes in pci_get_lfb_addr to handle the
> > situation.
>
> Does this only happen with VBE?

Yes.

cheers,
  Gerd