[Test-Announce] Fedora 18 Alpha Test Compose 3 (TC3) Available Now!

[Adam Williamson]

On 2012-08-16 21:35, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 07:46 PM, Andre Robatino wrote:
>> As per the Fedora 18 schedule [1], Fedora 18 Alpha Test Compose 3 
>> (TC3)
>> is now available for testing.
>
> I appear to be completely unable to boot this kernel under kvm
> x86_64. Anyone else seeing this?

There are known bugs with cirrus and qxl video in KVMs in F18 at 
present:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848930 (cirrus)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844463 (qxl)

cirrus *may* work in TC3 if comps was changed to add the 'modesetting' 
X driver and that change was picked up in the TC3 compose, but I haven't 
checked that yet. qxl is still broken.

To get a successful boot in a KVM, safest thing to do is use the 'vga' 
video adapter option rather than 'qxl' or 'cirrus' (you may need to 
change from Spice to VNC too - I'm not actually sure if Spice+vga can 
work, I always just switch to VNC when using any driver other than qxl).
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