From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add VirtIO Frame Buffer Support Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:21:33 +0200 Message-ID: <4AEFCBED.50804@redhat.com> References: <1257199759-2941-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1257199759-2941-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Alexander Graf Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, anthony@codemonkey.ws 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? -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.