Re: [PATCH] Add VirtIO Frame Buffer Support

Avi Kivity
2009-11-03T06:21:48Z

On 11/03/2009 12:09 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> When we want to create a full VirtIO based machine, we're still missing
> graphics output. Fortunately, Linux provides us with most of the frameworks
> to render text and everything, we only need to implement a transport.
>
> So this is a frame buffer backend written for VirtIO. Using this and my
> patch to qemu, you can use paravirtualized graphics.
>
>

What does this do that cirrus and/or vmware-vga don't?

> This is especially important on machines that can't do MMIO, as all current
> graphics implementations qemu emulates I'm aware of so far fail here.
>

s390 virtual desktops?

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