From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEcEq-0001Qj-Me for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:49:40 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEcEp-0008KD-Pv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:49:36 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZEcEp-0008K7-Jr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 07:49:35 -0400 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26563B7A9F for ; Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:49:35 +0000 (UTC) References: <55A158AF.8050907@redhat.com> <1436772752.26533.2.camel@redhat.com> <55A38FBD.4000203@redhat.com> <1436787942.26533.21.camel@redhat.com> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: <55A3A5C8.2060201@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:49:28 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1436787942.26533.21.camel@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel On 13/07/2015 13:45, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>>> > > > and virtio-vga is only compiled on 64-bit Intel? >>> > > >>> > > There is virtio-gpu-pci ... >>> > > >>> > > Any specific reason why we need vga compatibility on !x86? >> > >> > I was actually thinking about 32-bit x86. :) I agree that !x86 is not >> > necessary. > Yea, setting it for i386 makes sense indeed. Just went out of my focus, > last time I used qemu-system-i386 was a few years back ... > > Any reason why one would use qemu-system-i386 instead of > qemu-system-x86_64 btw? I suspect a 32bit host machine is the only one? Yes, I think so. Well, for TCG there is a difference of course. Laszlo was using qemu-system-i386 because OVMF doesn't support our x86_64 layout for the SMM state save area. Paolo