QXL crashes a Windows 7 guest if host goes into screensaver

[Philosophish]

Note: if further information is required, I'll be glad to supply it.

I am using on the host
- HP z800 with 72GB RAM and 2x x5680
- Gentoo 64-bit host (3.7.9 kernel, FGLRX RADEON driver 13.1)
- LIBVIRT 1.0.2 with QEMU(-KVM) 1.4.0

The guest:
- Windows 7 32-bit
- 2GB allocated
- 2 CPU
- using virtio for everything (disk,net,memballoon)
- Display = SPICE with spice channel
- Video driver is qxl (ram says 64MB)
- Spice-guest-tools 0.52 installed

When I use QXL and have the guest open in Virt-Manager/Virt-Viewer and let the host go into screensaver mode, the Win7 crashes hard.

When I change video to VGA, it survives the screen saver, no problem at all ,smooth sailing.

regards

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Triaging old bug tickets... can you still reproduce this issue with the latest version of QEMU? Or could we close this ticket nowadays?

[Philosophish (philosophish)]

Hello,

Obviously my hardware configuration and versions etc. have changed.

Also, I have taken to not using screensavers in the virtual machines anymore i.e. disabled.

BUT: I have set it up as similarly as possible and the crash/freeze/hang up with current versions of the drivers seems to be gone.

So I guess the ticket can be closed.

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

Thanks for checking! ... so I'm closing this ticket now.