Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] spapr: Add support for -vga option

[Alexander Graf]

On 27.06.2012, at 23:48, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 16:32 +0200, Andreas Färber wrote:
>>>> Did you test whether all those paths actually work with ppc? SPICE
>>>> didn't support ppc host last time I checked. Does it work on x86
>> host?
>>> Currently, I test -vga std, it works well.
>>> SPICE and curris are not supported on pcc. :)
>> 
>> Please elaborate on this: ppc host or guest? If they don't work with
>> sPAPR ppc guests there's little point in including the code here...
> 
> Right. However, to ease the pain with some things like libvirt, maybe we
> should make those choices "fallback" to std rather than not instanciate
> graphics at all ?

No, I'd rather just make the default be -vga std for -M pseries. It already is 
for the Mac PPC machines. libvirt shouldn't pass in -vga cirrus to get the 
default on any particular machine.


Alex