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

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:59:02AM -0400, WaxDragon wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:12 PM, 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.
> 
> Confirmed, reverting hw/vmware_vga.c to r4022 restores x.org and
> framebuffer functionality.
> 

I have just fixed an obvious bug. Please test if it fixes the problem.


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