From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Make -std-vga the default?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:30:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606280630.52237.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606280221.34783.jseward@acm.org>
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 02:21, Julian Seward wrote:
> I've been using -std-vga for a couple of weeks now, and it works well
> at least for the guests I've been using (Win2K/XP, Red Hat 9, SuSE 10.1).
Really? My win2k install couldn't do anything useful with -std-vga. It would
only do the very basic 640x480x4 mode. I'm fairly sure win9x can't do
anything useful with straight VGA either.
> Overall it seems to work much better than the default 5446 simulation
> and it seems to me that non-developer users, who are presumably the larger
> fraction of the user base, would benefit from having -std-vga as the
> default. The "it just works" property is important for new users, and
> -std-vga has more of that than the 5446 just at the moment.
In my experience the Cirrus emulation "just works", and is supported by pretty
much every OS out the box. AFAIK Windows earlier than XP doesn't needs
additional 3rd party drivers to support anonymous VESA hardware.
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-28 5:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-28 1:21 [Qemu-devel] Make -std-vga the default? Julian Seward
2006-06-28 5:30 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2006-06-28 7:04 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2006-06-28 14:56 ` Julian Seward
2006-06-28 8:48 ` [Qemu-devel] Qemu developement documentation? Tieu Ma Dau
2006-06-28 9:04 ` Jonas Maebe
2006-06-28 14:48 ` [Qemu-devel] Make -std-vga the default? Natalia Portillo
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