[Bug 1308756] Re: pc 1.0 machine type regressed with -vga vmware

[Serge Hallyn]

Hi Doug,

> I disagree about bumping the memory size as a fix:

In the release notes I only mentioned changing the machine type,
however bumping the memory size does work in the qemu command line.
It's just that ...

> For many months (13.10 days) I have always been bumping the memory for
> the video, as I calculated that it should be more. Typically, I have
> this in the .xml file:
> 

> <model type='vmvga' vram='16384' heads='1'/>

Yeah, see  http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2014-March/msg01118.html
for why that didn't work.  What you have ought to work, ideally,
but it doesn't.

> And I even ran this just now:
> 
> <model type='vmvga' vram='32768' heads='1'/>
> 
> Question:
> 
> what file or location that contains this stuff mentioned above? (so that I can look at the bigger context):
>         },{\
>             .driver = "VGA",\
>             .property = "vgamem_mb",\
>             .value = stringify(8),\
>         },{\
>             .driver = "vmware-svga",\
>             .property = "vgamem_mb",\
>             .value = stringify(8)

hw/i386/pc_piix.c in the qemu source

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