Re: [Qemu-devel] [5335] Change the way video graphics adapter is selected

[andrzej zaborowski]

2008/9/28 Blue Swirl <address@hidden>:
> On 9/28/08, andrzej zaborowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>> My thinking was that the next improvement to the -xxxvga syntax should
>>  be to allow multiple graphics cards to be inserted.  An interesting
>>  question is whether a bus hierarchy oriented syntax instead of
>>  functionality otiented would be better, for example -pcihw
>>  slot=N,model=vga (perhaps not).
>
> That would work too, but there are more buses than just PCI. Even the

Yes, for example USB related options already work this way.

> old Sparcstations with SBus supported more than one display device.
> And for that you would have to specify how the devices and windows
> (SDL etc.) are connected.

Or you could leave it the way it is now: if you register three vga's
they will get three consecutive vc's, similarly to -serial.  So for
example -serial -std-vga -serial -std-vga would give you 4 vc's in
this order.

Regards