GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 710706
Won't boot on F20 unless video mode set to VGA
Last modified: 2014-01-08 17:04:44 UTC
Continuous refuses to boot unless video mode on the vm is set to VGA.
It works for me on a RHEL6.5 host, but I can definitely confirm we fail with Fedora 20. From discussions with the spice people, we likely need a kernel fix that's in 3.11. At the moment we're using 3.10 from Yocto, will need to rebase.
For reference, to change the VM to VGA, assuming you've imported it in Boxes initially: $ virt-mangager -c qemu:///session * Go to View->Details * Click on Video * Change to "vga" Force off, then start.
*** Bug 712603 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Would this be fixed any time soon? Many users are seeing this and then they blame boxes for being "unstable" and "unusabled". I think its very important that images produced by gnome-continuous work out of the box on *the* gnome VM application.
I no longer get this issue on Fedora 20. Not sure when it changed, but (for example) gnome-continuous-x86_64-devel-debug-20140103.47.qcow2 opens normally with the default (QXL) video.
(In reply to comment #5) > I no longer get this issue on Fedora 20. Not sure when it changed, but (for > example) gnome-continuous-x86_64-devel-debug-20140103.47.qcow2 opens normally > with the default (QXL) video. Colin, did you fix it or was it just a coincidence?
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > I no longer get this issue on Fedora 20. Not sure when it changed, but (for > > example) gnome-continuous-x86_64-devel-debug-20140103.47.qcow2 opens normally > > with the default (QXL) video. > > Colin, did you fix it or was it just a coincidence? I didn't change anything in the Continuous kernel (it continuous to track the SPICE userspace git though). Perhaps something got fixed on the Fedora 20 host side?
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > (In reply to comment #5) > > > I no longer get this issue on Fedora 20. Not sure when it changed, but (for > > > example) gnome-continuous-x86_64-devel-debug-20140103.47.qcow2 opens normally > > > with the default (QXL) video. > > > > Colin, did you fix it or was it just a coincidence? > > I didn't change anything in the Continuous kernel (it continuous to track the > SPICE userspace git though). Ah, must have been a qxl regression then. > Perhaps something got fixed on the Fedora 20 host side? Unlikely, other guests worked find with qxl.