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TrueOS boot under kvm hangs #50

Closed fneddy closed 8 years ago

fneddy commented 8 years ago

trying to boot the TrueOS-Desktop-2016-08-31-x64-DVD.iso with qemu-kvm and then select the option xorg results in Xorg Fatal server error.

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The Xorg Server tries to restart several times and after 20-40 seconds this succeeds. During this time it is not possible to interact with the machine and it looks like it hanged.

pkgdemon commented 8 years ago

This likely just means we don't have a xf86-video driver that kvm typically looks for. Have you tried VESA, or SCFB?

fneddy commented 8 years ago

VESA works SCFB does not work.

Oddly when booting under kvm and tianocore-uefi VESA does not work but SCFB does.

So the solution for this issue would be to update the auto-detect :

  1. to use the VESA driver (and #54) if it finds the QXL graphics card.
  2. but to use SCFB if QXL and UEFI boot is active.
pkgdemon commented 8 years ago

This is fixed as of 09-20-16 with Fedora 24 + KVM. Redhat video adapter is detected, and either VESA, or SCFB are used. QXL is not yet supported by FreeBSD.