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Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated
From: |
Daniel P . Berrangé |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Oct 2018 10:43:14 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 10/25/2018 09:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:52:56AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > While being at it deprecate cirrus too.
> > >
> > > Reason (short version): use stdvga instead.
> > > Verbose version:
> > >
> > > https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful
> >
> > Every single one of my guests is using cirrus. This wasn't an explicit
> > choice on my part, so I believe it is being used as the default in
> > virt-install.
> >
>
> virt-manager/virt-install 2.0.0 will never explicitly set cirrus, but that
> release is quite new. The previous release's default for x86 was roughly:
>
> if using spice graphics:
> use qxl
> elif guest os is windows:
> use vga
> else:
> use cirrus
>
> It was definitely sub optimal. Maybe your virt-install commands were
> explicitly setting --graphics vnc which would trigger cirrus in that case.
Yep, I've always tended to use vnc, since QXL has historically been a
pretty buggy & unreliable device model with guests often breaking.
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/25
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, P J P, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Paolo Bonzini, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, P J P, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Christian Borntraeger, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Cole Robinson, 2018/10/26
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated,
Daniel P . Berrangé <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/10/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated, Daniel P . Berrangé, 2018/10/30
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] adlib: mark as insecure and deprecated., Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/10/25
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] adlib: mark as insecure and deprecated., Philippe Mathieu-Daudé, 2018/10/25
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] adlib: mark as insecure and deprecated., Thomas Huth, 2018/10/25