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Glauber Costa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The last version of the vga patch brought hope of a clean interface
> for the vga optimization. However, it failed in some guests due to
> the explicit need for alias, contrary to what we used to think.
>
> This needs arises from a KVM host bug (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/11/17/496)
>
> However, even if it gets eventually fixed, any qemu running on an
> old enough kernel will fail. Because of that, this series introduces
> implicit aliasing support for kvm first, to just then implement the vga
> optimization.
>
> The main idea is that qemu should never need to know about our 
> dirty trick.
>
> Hope I didn't miss anything.
>
>   

Looks good.

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