From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMq8B-0000W9-8A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:44:59 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LMq8A-0000V5-2L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:44:58 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53927 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LMq89-0000Uw-Nk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:44:57 -0500 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:57837) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LMq89-0003Si-7z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:44:57 -0500 Received: from d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.227]) by e32.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0DKh3kF018534 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:43:03 -0700 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (d03av01.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.167]) by d03relay02.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id n0DKitsc161108 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:44:55 -0700 Received: from d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av01.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n0DKisMT013677 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:44:55 -0700 Message-ID: <496CFD3F.7010303@us.ibm.com> Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:44:47 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori 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> <496CFC02.1080800@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <496CFC02.1080800@redhat.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: Avi Kivity Cc: ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, borntraeger@de.ibm.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