Re: [Qemu-devel] Make -std-vga the default?

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi,

> > I've been using -std-vga for a couple of weeks now, and it works well
> > at least for the guests I've been using (Win2K/XP, Red Hat 9, SuSE  
> > 10.1).
>
> Really? My win2k install couldn't do anything useful with -std-vga.  
> It would
> only do the very basic 640x480x4 mode. I'm fairly sure win9x can't do
> anything useful with straight VGA either.
Same here

> > Overall it seems to work much better than the default 5446 simulation
> > and it seems to me that non-developer users, who are presumably  
> > the larger
> > fraction of the user base, would benefit from having -std-vga as the
> > default.  The "it just works" property is important for new users,  
> > and
> > -std-vga has more of that than the 5446 just at the moment.
>
> In my experience the Cirrus emulation "just works", and is  
> supported by pretty
> much every OS out the box. AFAIK Windows earlier than XP doesn't needs
> additional 3rd party drivers to support anonymous VESA hardware.
That are most of time difficult to find and commercial only.
Not to say for OS/2, Windows 3.x, etc

Regards