Cludmin KVM - "Enable high resolution graphics?" causes problems

Submitted by Lucian on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 13:38

Hi,

With Cloudmin KVM GPL (5.4), if I enable "Enable high resolution graphics?" I get the followinh when trying to start up that system:

"Starting up f13live.cloudmin.localdomain .. .. failed : PTY PID: 29095 /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm: invalid option -- '-std-vga' change vnc password"

Any ideas?

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

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Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 14:51

If you run man qemu-kvm or man kvm on your system, does it report that the --std-vga parameter is supported?

Submitted by Lucian on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 16:54

/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm --help|grep vga -vga [std|cirrus]

So I guess it should be "/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -vga std"...

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 04/29/2011 - 17:35

Ok, looks like they renamed that option ..

If you run /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -h | head -1 , what version number is show?

Submitted by Lucian on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 02:49

QEMU PC emulator version 0.9.1 (kvm-83-maint-snapshot-20090205), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

(stock centos 5.6)

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 13:44

Ok, thanks .. on my test systems I also have KVM 0.9.1, but a different minor version .. and presumably that option was renamed somewhere between 0.9.1-65 and 0.9.1-83 !

The next Cloudmin release will detect the correct option and use the right flag.

Submitted by Lucian on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 14:01

Any quick work around untill next release?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 14:33

Yes .. on the master system, edit the file /usr/libexec/webmin/server-manager/kvm-type-lib.pl and change line 1827 to :

                $cmd .= " -std-vga";

Then run /etc/webmin/restart

Submitted by Lucian on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 14:38

I changed that to " -vga std" and it works.

Cheers :)

Submitted by JamieCameron on Sat, 04/30/2011 - 16:13

Oops, that's what I meant to write ..

Submitted by Issues on Sat, 05/14/2011 - 16:20

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.