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

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

I'm pretty sure the native console is 3270.  I suspect that would be 
something that would be nice to move away from :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori