Re: gnome-boxes lockup issue

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 16:27 +0300, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 12:50 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> >>  - F16 has an old QXL driver which does synchronous updates. This
>> >>    will be fixed by updating F16 to the F17 QXL driver which is
>> >>    fully async
>> >
>> > Actually, there seems to be an update with this in F16 already, I was
>> > just not up to date in the vm.
>>
>> Then I'm guessing that you you either didn't create the VM through
>> boxes or you did so a while back cause I have already fixed that issue
>> by fetching up packages directly from repos (assuming network is
>> available).
>
> I installed it on boxes, but using the live cd, not the full image.
>
> Btw, since this is the "default" image that fedoraproject.org will give
> you, should we perhaps recognize it ans say something about that when
> installing from it?

Yeah, its the same for Ubuntu and based on my conversations about this
with elmarco and designers in the recent times I've been meaning to
restrict the special handling of live media to:

1. live-only medias.
2. medias passed through commandline.


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124