Re: [PATCH] Add VirtIO Frame Buffer Support

Anthony Liguori
2009-11-03T15:14:40Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 11/03/2009 10:26 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>> Exactly. In fact, I'm even scared to reboot mine because I might end
>> up in a 3270 terminal. The whole text only crap keeps people from
>> using this platform! And that's what I want to change here.
>
> Ok. I oppose paravirtualization for its own sake and only support it
> if there's no other way to get performance. In this case it buys us
> basic functionality which is surprisingly missing on native, that's
> arguably even more important.

There is no "native" on s390. Everything is "paravirtual".

Regards,

Anthony Liguori