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Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA
From: |
Benjamin Herrenschmidt |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Nov 2013 07:28:34 +1100 |
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.
Cheers,
Ben.
- [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexander Graf, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <=
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Peter Maydell, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexander Graf, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexander Graf, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Anthony Liguori, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Paolo Bonzini, 2013/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Alexey Kardashevskiy, 2013/11/15
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Anthony Liguori, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Peter Maydell, 2013/11/14
- Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, 2013/11/14