Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated
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
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