SDL support is missing while virglrenderer has problems with GTK
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qemu (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virglrenderer (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Disabling SDL support may have its reasons, but I guess that means I may be the only one using the virglrenderer library, because it has problems running with the GTK frontend.
I've been emulating an Android 9.0 device since Eoan, and it took me some time to understand Qemu's GTK frontend and virglrenderer were interacting badly. That may very well be a problem with virglrenderer, not Qemu, but still, using SDL is a good way around it.
Currently it doesn't change anything for me as I have to rebuild to insert a personal patch anyway, but I thought it may be worth mentioning, since people may experience problems with virglrenderer they don't know how to solve.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: qemu-system-x86 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.6
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.8
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Sep 18 15:30:22 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-09-22 (361 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416)
KvmCmdLine: COMMAND STAT EUID RUID PID PPID %CPU COMMAND
MachineType: Notebook P17SM-A
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: qemu
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-16 (124 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 03/27/2014
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 4.6.5
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: P17SM-A
dmi.board.vendor: Notebook
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.family: Not Applicable
dmi.product.name: P17SM-A
dmi.product.sku: Not Applicable
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Notebook
Thanks Olivier for the report.
It is very unlikely that we'll be able or allowed [1] to enable SDL in Focal after the fact. But I'd be very interested which problems you are seeing, what the steps to recreate them are exactly and if you have reported (or found) upstream discussions about these.
Because even if we don't re-enable SDL I'd want to learn what we might need to improve it with GTK.
[1]: https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/StableRelea seUpdates