From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMq31-0004Tz-Gc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:39:39 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMq30-0004Su-RP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:39:39 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47314 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMq30-0004Sh-LH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:39:38 -0500 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:42816) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMq30-0002rp-63 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:39:38 -0500 Message-ID: <496CFC02.1080800@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:39:30 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 4] Add virtio-console support to qemu References: <496CF94D.9010903@redhat.com> <496CFAD8.5000107@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <496CFAD8.5000107@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.com Anthony Liguori wrote: >> What is the advantage of virtio-console, compared to the standard >> serial port? > > Certain platforms have instructions for anything you can think of but > no uart. Wouldn't these platforms want to emulate their native console, whatever that looks like? That might be extra handy if they have some virtualization heritage. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.