Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1 of 4] kvm-userpace: add virtio-console support

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 16:37 +0100, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:

> +    virtio_consoles[0] = "vc:80Cx24C";
> +    for(i = 1; i < MAX_VIRTIO_CONSOLES; i++)
> +        virtio_consoles[i] = NULL;
> +    virtio_console_index = 0;

Hmm, why do we have virtio console enabled by default on x86? Does it
make sense for it to only be available if it's explicitly configured,
except for platforms that don't have serial?

There's a good chance this is going to confuse the hell out of Fedora's
installer, for example. And how does the likes of "virsh console" know
to connect to the virtio console rather than the serial console?

Cheers,
Mark.