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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [5335] Change the way video graphics adapter is selected |
Date: | Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:42:56 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) |
Blue Swirl wrote:
On 9/28/08, malc <address@hidden> wrote:Revision: 5335 http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5335 Author: malc Date: 2008-09-28 00:42:05 +0000 (Sun, 28 Sep 2008) Log Message: ----------- Change the way video graphics adapter is selected Instead of having (current)three command line switches -std-vga, -cirrusvga and -vmwarevga, provide one -vga switch which takes an argument, so that: qemu -std-vga becomes qemu -vga std qemu -cirrusvga becomes qemu -vga cirrus qemu -vmwarevga becomes qemu -vga vmwareI'd prefer a more generic syntax, like -drive options: -displayhw model=vga,type=std -displayhw model=vga,type=std -displayhw model=vga,type=std -displayhw model=tcx,type=hardwarecursor
I think this would quickly rat hole since it requires rewriting a huge amount of code.
Then this option would be useful for non-VGA targets. I don't see -vga xxx as an improvement over -xxx-vga.
If the next steps are creating a mechanism to register VGA hw emulation, then I think this is a step in the right direction.
I think we have to get to a place where most hardware devices are registered within a generic frame work before we start trying to expose that to the user.
Regards, Anthony Liguori
Also, there should be compatibility support for previous syntax, like -cdrom or -hda implies some -drive options.
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