Black WinXP screen in qemu-kvm after f13->f14 upgrade on i686

John Lagrue jlagrue at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 21:30:05 UTC 2010


I have to report exactly the same problem, though I am running the 32 bit
version.

John

On 6 November 2010 08:12, Mogens Kjaer <mk at lemo.dk> wrote:

> After I've upgraded my laptop (preupgrade i386 f13->f14) I can no longer
> start my guest Win XP in virt-manager. The screen is black when I start
> Windows.
>
> On my desktop running x86_64 f14 (also upgraded from f13) I don't have
> this problem.
>
> If I do a fresh installation of Win XP in a new guest window I get the
> same problem: The screen is black after the installation has finished.
> I don't have this problem in x86_64.
>
> What should I look for?
>
> Mogens
>
> The contents of /etc/libvirt/qemu/XP.xml (this worked in f13):
>
>  <domain type='kvm'>
>  <name>XP</name>
>  <uuid>81861fa1-ae36-c8e5-8aeb-97d92ffd9d87</uuid>
>  <memory>524288</memory>
>  <currentMemory>524288</currentMemory>
>  <vcpu>1</vcpu>
>  <os>
>    <type arch='i686' machine='fedora-13'>hvm</type>
>    <boot dev='hd'/>
>  </os>
>  <clock offset='localtime'/>
>  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
>  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
>  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
>  <devices>
>    <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-kvm</emulator>
>    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
>      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>      <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/XP.img'/>
>      <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
>      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' unit='0'/>
>    </disk>
>    <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
>      <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
>      <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
>      <readonly/>
>      <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' unit='0'/>
>    </disk>
>    <controller type='ide' index='0'>
>      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01'
> function='0x1'/>
>    </controller>
>    <interface type='network'>
>      <mac address='00:16:3e:1c:87:d7'/>
>      <source network='default'/>
>      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04'
> function='0x0'/>
>    </interface>
>    <input type='tablet' bus='usb'/>
>    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
>    <graphics type='vnc' port='5900' autoport='no' listen='0.0.0.0'
> keymap='da'/>
>    <video>
>      <model type='cirrus' vram='9216' heads='1'/>
>      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02'
> function='0x0'/>
>    </video>
>  </devices>
> </domain>
>
> --
> Mogens Kjaer, mk at lemo.dk
> http://www.lemo.dk
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