Re: [Qemu-devel] -vga std vs. -device VGA

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 23:03 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 November 2013 22:32, Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 17:23 -0500, Alexander Graf wrote:
> >> Yes. But I think it's the correct thing to do in this case. X86 also
> >> doesn't create a USB controller like we would have to. Our pseries
> >> platform just doesn't have a legacy PC/AT keyboard controller.
> >
> > Sure, but that implies that -nodefaults -device VGA creates a working
> > usable machine on x86 and not on pseries...
> 
> Sounds plausible. Anything using -nodefaults has to have
> knowledge of every QEMU machine type it wants to use
> so it can know which devices need adding in ordar to get
> various functionality. ('-device VGA' doesn't work at all on
> some, for instance). If you ask for full manual control, you
> get full manual control :-)

Ok, as long as everybody agrees then I don't have a problem with that,
but we'll need libvirt to grow some smarts.

Alexey, can you handle that ?

Cheers,
Ben.