Comment 40 for bug 513273

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Dustin Kirkland  (kirkland) wrote : Re: [Bug 513273] Re: kvm with -vga std is broken since karmic

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Steve Langasek
<email address hidden> wrote:
>> The only users positively affected by the new upload are those that
>> want to use kvm or qemu with the -vga std option.
>
> Does this mean that if you aren't using the -vga option this change has
> no effect; and that if you are using the -vga option, it doesn't work
> today?

Correct.

> As Soren notes, bochs is its own project.  I don't think it's too much
> to ask for a simple regression-test before and after this vgabios
> change.

Would one of the commenters asking for this upload care to validate it
against bochs? I'm overtasked with higher priority items right now.

> Rejecting the vgabios upload from the freeze queue, since beta freeze is
> over and this shouldn't be accidentally accepted.

Agreed, thanks.

:-Dustin