I've already tried to contact people on IRC, but I was getting "we don't
care, go away" feeling. So, once again, just to make sure Workstation SIG
is aware. There's this blocker:
heavy screen flicker with latest kernels in qxl+spice VM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1491320
We don't have much time until F27 Final release [1]. The kernel folks are
not sure if this can be fixed easily or quickly. It would help if software
stack could be adjusted to avoid this issue:
a) gnome-boxes and virt-manager defaulting to virtio-vga instead of qxl
b) mutter falling back to xorg when qxl driver is detected
It would be great if we didn't have to deal with this at the very last day,
so please, look into this. I expect a) to be quite easy, but please note
this will not fix the problem for anyone using an already created VM, or
using a different distribution. Those will still see F27 Workstation with
horrible flickering display. b) would help with that, but I assume that's a
bit more work.
Thanks,
Kamil
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/27/Schedule