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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 08:04 -0500, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 2) -nodefaults
> 
> This mode is meant to pass full control to a management stack which
> wants to implement its own cleverness. The less QEMU tries to be
> smart, the more consistent we are in our interface. This mode really
> is meant as to tell QEMU to allow you to shoot yourself in the foot.
> 
> So in this case, the proper fix is to add the logic to libvirt. It
> asks for a machine without cleverness applied, so it needs to do all
> of the magic itself. It already does this for the mouse btw
> (-usbdevice tablet) to allow for an absolute pointer. It's only
> sensible to ask them to do the keyboard too. In this case, x86 is the
> inconsistent platform.

I knew you were going to answer that :-)

Note that this is inconsistent with x86 which always create a number
of devices with -nodefaults ... such as a keyboard controller.

Cheers,
Ben.