From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Announcing qboot, a minimal x86 firmware for QEMU Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 12:33:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20150522113338.GH14428@redhat.com> References: <555DE2EF.1000509@redhat.com> <20150522110136.GF14428@redhat.com> <20150522111259.GG14428@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Cc: Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel , KVM list To: Peter Maydell Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33418 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755849AbbEVLdo (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 May 2015 07:33:44 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 12:21:27PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 22 May 2015 at 12:12, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > Yep, it is hard saying no - but I'd think as long as it was possible to add > > the extra features using -device, it ought to be practical to keep a "virt" > > machine types "-nodefaults -nodefconfig" base setup pretty minimal. > > Mmm, but -device only works for pluggable devices really. We don't > have a coherent mechanism for saying "put the PS/2 keyboard controller > into the system at its usual IO ports" on the command line. Oh, I didn't neccessarily mean that we'd need the ability to add a ps/2 keyboard via -device. I meant that there just need to be able to add /some/ kind of keyboard. eg we have a usb-kbd device that could potentially fill that role. Likewise for mouse pointer. Serial ports, etc. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|