Debian Bug report logs - #605525
qemu -M isapc does not display VGA output

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sebastian Raase <s.raase@arcor.de>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: qemu -M isapc does not display VGA output

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 23:15:58 +0100

Package: qemu
Version: 0.12.5+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

When I start qemu with "-M isapc" on my amd64 host, I only get a black screen (640x480) without any display at all. It does work with "-M pc".

In a previous release (from the 0.8 days), there was no Cirrus GD5446 emulated for this machine type, but a Cirrus ISA chip instead (or at least the Windows driver reported it as such).

The bug report on qemu-devel (http://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg26287.html) is probably the same as this bug report.

Another funny thing is the existence of "-M isapc" for qemu-system-x86_64, where it is completely useless (no amd64-compatible machine has ever been ISA-only).

Using the latest stable upstream version of qemu, 0.13.0 as of now, does not help at all, but trying "-vga vmware" results in "pc_vga_init: vmware_vga: no PCI bus" as expected. At least Cirrus emulation should behave the same way.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages qemu depends on:
ii  qemu-system                0.12.5+dfsg-2 QEMU full system emulation binarie
ii  qemu-user                  0.12.5+dfsg-2 QEMU user mode emulation binaries
ii  qemu-utils                 0.12.5+dfsg-2 QEMU utilities

qemu recommends no packages.

Versions of packages qemu suggests:
pn  qemu-user-static              <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 605525@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>

To: 605525@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#605525: qemu -M isapc does not display VGA output

Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:37:07 -0800

tags 605525 confirmed
found 605525 0.15.1+dfsg-3
found 605525 1.0+dfsg-1
thanks

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Sebastian Raase wrote:
> When I start qemu with "-M isapc" on my amd64 host, I only get a black screen
> (640x480) without any display at all. It does work with "-M pc".

still an issue with qemu 1.0+dfsg-1 and 0.15.1+dfsg-3.

live well,
  vagrant

Message #21 received at 605525@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

To: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>

Cc: 605525@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#605525: qemu -M isapc does not display VGA output

Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:08:35 +0400

found 605525 1.1.0+dfsg-1
forwarded https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1024248
thanks

On 09.01.2012 23:37, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:15:58PM +0100, Sebastian Raase wrote:
>> When I start qemu with "-M isapc" on my amd64 host, I only get a black screen
>> (640x480) without any display at all. It does work with "-M pc".
> 
> still an issue with qemu 1.0+dfsg-1 and 0.15.1+dfsg-3.

And still present in 1.1.  It works in kvm however, or
with -enable-kvm in qemu.  I opened a bugreport in the
upstream bugtracker.

Thanks,

/mjt

Message #32 received at 605525@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

To: 605525@bugs.debian.org

Subject: fixed upstream

Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 18:24:31 +0400

Upstream fix:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/169653

Message #43 received at 605525-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

To: 605525-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#605525: fixed in qemu 1.6.0+dfsg-1

Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:49:13 +0000

Source: qemu
Source-Version: 1.6.0+dfsg-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
qemu, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 605525@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> (supplier of updated qemu package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 15:18:49 +0400
Source: qemu
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Architecture: source amd64 all
Version: 1.6.0+dfsg-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian QEMU Team <pkg-qemu-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Description: 
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 qemu-utils - QEMU utilities
Closes: 605525 701855 714273 718180
Changes: 
 qemu (1.6.0+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Michael Tokarev ]
   * final upstream v1.6.0 (Closes: #718180, #714273, #605525, #701855)
   * removed configure-explicitly-disable-virtfs-if-softmmu=no.patch
   * mention closing of #717724 by 1.6
   * mention closing of #710971 by 1.5 (which disabled gtk support)
 .
   [ Riku Voipio ]
   * - set --cross-prefix in debian/rules when cross-compiling
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