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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] q35: Provide improved sample configurations
From: |
Gerd Hoffmann |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] q35: Provide improved sample configurations |
Date: |
Wed, 01 Feb 2017 15:46:06 +0100 |
Hi,
> q35-emulated.cfg # emulated guest
> q35-virtio-common.cfg # shared by all VirtIO guests
> q35-virtio-graphical.cfg # VirtIO guest, graphical console
> q35-virtio-serial.cfg # VirtIO guest, serial console
Looks good to me.
> > > +[device "tablet"]
> > > + driver = "usb-tablet"
> > > + bus = "usb.0"
> > > + port = "2"
> >
> > There is also virtio-tablet, but for a generic config usb is probably
> > the better choice as virtio-tablet is supported by modern linux only (on
> > x86, on arm we have only modern linux anyway so picking virtio-tablet
> > should be fine).
>
> Okay, I will keep this in mind when working on the
> aarch64/virt sample configuration. We can probably use
> virtio-keyboard-pci and virtio-tablet-pci there, avoiding
> the need to have a USB controller at all.
Not sure whenever we have firmware support for virtio-keyboard (which of
course only matters with virtio-gpu being supported, otherwise we have
to use the serial line anyway to operate the grub boot menu).
cheers,
Gerd