Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 13/07/2015 13:45, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> > > > and virtio-vga is only compiled on 64-bit Intel?
>>> > >
>>> > > There is virtio-gpu-pci ...
>>> > > 
>>> > > Any specific reason why we need vga compatibility on !x86?
>> > 
>> > I was actually thinking about 32-bit x86. :)  I agree that !x86 is not
>> > necessary.
> Yea, setting it for i386 makes sense indeed.  Just went out of my focus,
> last time I used qemu-system-i386 was a few years back ...
> 
> Any reason why one would use qemu-system-i386 instead of
> qemu-system-x86_64 btw?  I suspect a 32bit host machine is the only one?

Yes, I think so.

Well, for TCG there is a difference of course.  Laszlo was using
qemu-system-i386 because OVMF doesn't support our x86_64 layout for the
SMM state save area.

Paolo