From 52d188e32fb8addb45bf926df07e34ab35898f85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2012 10:29:26 +0100
Subject: qemu: Use sgabios by default (thanks Dan Berrange).

---
 src/launch.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/launch.c b/src/launch.c
index af5ca9fd..e7865195 100644
--- a/src/launch.c
+++ b/src/launch.c
@@ -825,6 +825,15 @@ launch_appliance (guestfs_h *g)
     add_cmdline (g, "stdio");
 #endif
 
+    /* Use sgabios instead of vgabios.  This means we'll see BIOS
+     * messages on the serial port, and also works around this bug
+     * in qemu 1.1.0:
+     * https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1021649
+     * QEmu has included sgabios upstream since just before 1.0.
+     */
+    add_cmdline (g, "-device");
+    add_cmdline (g, "sga");
+
     /* Set up virtio-serial for the communications channel. */
     add_cmdline (g, "-chardev");
     snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, "socket,path=%s,id=channel0", guestfsd_sock);
-- 
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