From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
borntraeger@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 4] Add virtio-console support to qemu
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:44:47 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <496CFD3F.7010303@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <496CFC02.1080800@redhat.com>
Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.
I'm pretty sure the native console is 3270. I suspect that would be
something that would be nice to move away from :-)
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-13 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-13 15:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 4] Add virtio-console support to qemu Christian Ehrhardt
2009-01-13 15:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1 of 4] kvm-userpace: add virtio-console support Christian Ehrhardt
2009-01-15 19:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-19 10:09 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-13 15:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2 of 4] kvm-userpace: add virtio-console cmdline option Christian Ehrhardt
2009-01-19 10:11 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-13 15:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3 of 4] kvm-userpace: add virtio-console initializer for x86 Christian Ehrhardt
2009-01-13 15:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4 of 4] kvm-userpace: add virtio-console initializer for powerpc Christian Ehrhardt
2009-01-13 20:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0 of 4] Add virtio-console support to qemu Avi Kivity
2009-01-13 20:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-13 20:39 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-13 20:44 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-01-13 20:41 ` Christian Borntraeger
2009-01-13 20:58 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-13 21:00 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-15 20:08 ` Anthony Liguori
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