From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add VMware machine
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 14:38:03 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B1B89B.6060003@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48B1894B.9000602@reactos.org>
Hervé Poussineau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Attached patch adds a 'vmware' machine type.
> This one automatically uses VMware display card, and enables VMware mouse.
>
I really don't like the idea of proliferating machine types in the
absence of a configuration file system.
> In non VMware machine types (ie 'pc' and 'isapc' types), VMware backdoor
> and VMware mouse are disabled [1]
>
Why would we want to disable these things?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> I added an enum with PC types in pc.c . This system can be extended
> later to add more PC types.
>
> Please comment.
>
> Hervé
>
> [1] This has the same effect that the switch '-no-vmport' proposed by
> Ian Kirk in http://marc.info/?l=qemu-devel&m=121957847306185&w=2
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-24 16:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add VMware machine Hervé Poussineau
2008-08-24 17:24 ` Blue Swirl
2008-08-24 19:38 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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