From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: Disabling cirrus-vga Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:27:06 +0000 Message-ID: <20081218102706.GD23277@redhat.com> References: <6b5ba5140812121658u630657f0i232b6971d46d26f1@mail.gmail.com> <6b5ba5140812150136j7b421feeq5656478c122663de@mail.gmail.com> <4946357C.6090206@eu.citrix.com> <6b5ba5140812150258v524eac52rd62ebc1278f498c9@mail.gmail.com> <49464844.6000107@eu.citrix.com> <515922b50812151132l278f4ba0pf99b0fc3b7b1e971@mail.gmail.com> <49478B0C.30907@eu.citrix.com> <20081216112509.GC20024@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Jun Koi Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:45:29AM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:03:40AM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > >> Trolle Selander wrote: > >> > >> > Maybe it would be a good idea if the "nographic" option actually removed > >> > all virtual graphics cards? Is anyone out there actually running with > >> > the nographic option and still depending on the presence of a virtual > >> > VGA card in the VM? Until this thread, I actually thought the nographic > >> > option did just this, and it still strikes me as a more "logical" > >> > behavior, but maybe changing it now would break existing setups. > >> > > >> > >> nographic is an old qemu cmd line option (since 2003), I doubt people > >> would be very happy if we change the meaning of it. > > > > Absolutely not ! > > > >> However we could add a new one. > > > > Latest upstream QEMU now has a sane arg for specifying video device > > type > > > > -vga [std|cirrus|vmware] > > > > I am wondering what is the advantage of vmware over std/cirrus? In > which case we should use vmware?? I believe it allows much larger screen resolutions. The downside of course is that you need special drivers in the guest. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|