Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add VMware machine

[Anthony Liguori]

Hervé Poussineau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached patch adds a 'vmware' machine type.
> This one automatically uses VMware display card, and enables VMware mouse.
>   

I really don't like the idea of proliferating machine types in the 
absence of a configuration file system.

> In non VMware machine types (ie 'pc' and 'isapc' types), VMware backdoor
> and VMware mouse are disabled [1]
>   

Why would we want to disable these things?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> I added an enum with PC types in pc.c . This system can be extended
> later to add more PC types.
>
> Please comment.
>
> Hervé
>
> [1] This has the same effect that the switch '-no-vmport' proposed by
> Ian Kirk in http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=121957847306185&w=2
>