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From: | Alexander Graf |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add VirtIO Frame Buffer Support |
Date: | Tue, 3 Nov 2009 07:22:54 +0100 |
On 03.11.2009, at 07:21, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 11/03/2009 12:09 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:When we want to create a full VirtIO based machine, we're still missing graphics output. Fortunately, Linux provides us with most of the frameworksto render text and everything, we only need to implement a transport.So this is a frame buffer backend written for VirtIO. Using this and mypatch to qemu, you can use paravirtualized graphics.What does this do that cirrus and/or vmware-vga don't?
Work on non-MMIO machines.
This is especially important on machines that can't do MMIO, as all currentgraphics implementations qemu emulates I'm aware of so far fail here.s390 virtual desktops?
Well - have you ever tried installing SLES / RHEL on an S390? If not, give it a shot and comment again :-)
Alex
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