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Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA |
Date: |
Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:23:24 -0500 |
On 14.11.2013, at 15:28, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:04 -0500, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> 2) -nodefaults
>>
>> This mode is meant to pass full control to a management stack which
>> wants to implement its own cleverness. The less QEMU tries to be
>> smart, the more consistent we are in our interface. This mode really
>> is meant as to tell QEMU to allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.
>>
>> So in this case, the proper fix is to add the logic to libvirt. It
>> asks for a machine without cleverness applied, so it needs to do all
>> of the magic itself. It already does this for the mouse btw
>> (-usbdevice tablet) to allow for an absolute pointer. It's only
>> sensible to ask them to do the keyboard too. In this case, x86 is the
>> inconsistent platform.
>
> I knew you were going to answer that :-)
>
> Note that this is inconsistent with x86 which always create a number
> of devices with -nodefaults ... such as a keyboard controller.
Yes. But I think it's the correct thing to do in this case. X86 also doesn't
create a USB controller like we would have to. Our pseries platform just
doesn't have a legacy PC/AT keyboard controller.
Alex
- [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexander Graf, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Peter Maydell, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA,
Alexander Graf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexander Graf, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Anthony Liguori, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Anthony Liguori, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Peter Maydell, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexander Graf, 2013/11/14