[DRE-maint] Bug#1095733: vagrant-libvirt: video_type should not default to cirrus anymore

[Julien Plissonneau Duquène]

Package: vagrant-libvirt
Version: 0.12.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: sre4ever at free.fr

Dear Maintainers,

Apparently (and according to its documentation) this library (and libvirt as
well) still defaults to a "cirrus" graphics adapter for created VMs though that
default was changed to 'stdvga' in qemu over a decade ago [1] for performance
reasons [2].

Could you please update the default to either match that of qemu (stdvga) or
maybe a better option (among qxl, virtio, vmware, vbox), forward the patch
upstream, and maybe submit a similar bug to libvirt so they update their
default as well?


Best regards,


[1]: https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.2#VGA
[2]: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/

--
Julien Plissonneau Duquène


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (20, 'unstable'), (10, 'experimental'), (5, 'stable-updates'), (5, 'stable-security'), (5, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.11.10-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages vagrant-libvirt depends on:
ii  libruby3.1t64 [ruby-rexml]  3.1.2-8.5
ii  libruby3.3 [ruby-rexml]     3.3.7-1
ii  ruby-diffy                  3.4.2-1
ii  ruby-fog-core               2.3.0-2
ii  ruby-fog-libvirt            0.12.0-1
ii  ruby-nokogiri               1.18.2+dfsg-1
ii  ruby-xml-simple             1.1.9-1
ii  vagrant                     2.3.7+git20230731.5fc64cde+dfsg-3

Versions of packages vagrant-libvirt recommends:
ii  libguestfs-tools   1:1.52.2-7+b5
ii  nfs-kernel-server  1:2.8.2-1+b1
ii  qemu-utils         1:9.2.0+ds-5

vagrant-libvirt suggests no packages.

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