On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 09:48:35AM +0100, Cole Robinson wrote:
On 10/25/2018 09:37 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 10:52:56AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
While being at it deprecate cirrus too.
Reason (short version): use stdvga instead. Verbose version: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful
Every single one of my guests is using cirrus. This wasn't an explicit choice on my part, so I believe it is being used as the default in virt-install.
virt-manager/virt-install 2.0.0 will never explicitly set cirrus, but that release is quite new. The previous release's default for x86 was roughly:
if using spice graphics: use qxl elif guest os is windows: use vga else: use cirrus
It was definitely sub optimal. Maybe your virt-install commands were explicitly setting --graphics vnc which would trigger cirrus in that case.
Yep, I've always tended to use vnc, since QXL has historically been a pretty buggy & unreliable device model with guests often breaking. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|