[Xen-devel] libxl videoram for cirrus graphics

[Rob Hoes <Rob.Hoes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

The videoram setting in xl config files is documented as follows:

"
videoram=MBYTES

    Sets the amount of RAM which the emulated video card will contain, which in 
turn limits the resolutions and bit depths which will be available. The default 
amount of video ram for stdvga is 8MB which is sufficient for e.g. 1600x1200 at 
32bpp and videoram option is currently working only when using the 
qemu-xen-traditional device-model.

    When using the emulated Cirrus graphics card (vga="cirrus") the amount of 
video ram is fixed at 4MB which is sufficient for 1024x768 at 32 bpp and 
videoram option is currently working only when using the upstream qemu-xen 
device-model.
"

XenServer also uses a default of 4MB video ram for cirrus graphics.

However, when I use xl to create a VM with cirrus graphics, I get 8MB of video 
RAM by default. Moreover, setting it to videoram=4 in the config file leads to 
complaints from libxl:

    libxl_create.c:228:libxl__domain_build_info_setdefault: videoram must be at 
least 8 mb

Is there a bug in the logic in libxl_create.c?

Cheers,
Rob

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