Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 4] Add virtio-console support to qemu

[Avi Kivity]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > What is the advantage of virtio-console, compared to the standard 
> > serial port?
>
> Certain platforms have instructions for anything you can think of but 
> no uart.

Wouldn't these platforms want to emulate their native console, whatever 
that looks like?  That might be extra handy if they have some 
virtualization heritage.

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