From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: kvm + vmwgfx Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:17:06 +0300 Message-ID: <4F8FD812.3060404@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Alberich de megres Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18842 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752952Ab2DSJRK (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Apr 2012 05:17:10 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/19/2012 10:34 AM, Alberich de megres wrote: > Hello! > > Anyone has succeed on making a kvm guest linux, say fedora 16, with > vmwgfx driver? > I want to make it work over dri interface, but probably without the > x-org, it will be some testbed for wayland builds. > > My host is a fedora 16, with kernel 3.3.0-8, with a working dri card. > > I run the kvm: > qemu-kvm -vga vmware -hda f16.kernel-3.3.1.qcow > > When intro the guest OS, i try to modprobe kvm, drm, ttm and last vmwgfx. > > I got the following output in dmesg: > [drm:vmw_driver_load] *ERROR* Hardware has no pitchloc > > the probe failed with error -38 > IIUC the vmware device emulation was based on reverse-engineering the linux xorg driver, not on a spec. As such it may be incomplete. You can either reverse-engineer the linux driver for the missing bits, or ask vmware for documentation. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function