From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Status of ioemu code in unstable? Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:34:49 -0500 Message-ID: <42DC4AA9.7000706@us.ibm.com> References: <42DC2705.6020206@hp.com> None None <42DC2C84.1000403@intel.com> <42DC458B.7000206@hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <42DC458B.7000206@hp.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: John Byrne Cc: Arun Sharma , xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org John Byrne wrote: > There appears to be VNC support in qemu which I assume will allow you > to see both the text and graphics (X) mode of the emulated console. If > so, is there a way to achieve this with a para-virtualized kernel? There is an item on the TODO list to implement a para-virtualized framebuffer. That would provide this sort of functionality. I don't know if anyone is actively working on it but I know there's at least been some discussion abou tit. Regards, Anthony Liguori > My undertanding is that the xen changes to the Linux kernel include > changes to the console driver to talk to the xen tools and that is you > want and X server, you run Xvnc. So, looking at the text console and > the X server require different tools. > > If I were trying to manage virtual machines, I'd want a solution that > didn't care about what kind of kernel I was running. > > John Byrne > > > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com > http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel >