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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, hare@suse.de

On 10/19/09 16:37, Alexander Graf wrote:
> All "normal" system emulation targets in qemu I'm aware of display output
> on either VGA or serial output.
>
> Our S390x virtio machine doesn't have such kind of legacy hardware. So
> instead we need to default to a virtio console.
>
> I'm not particularly proud of this patch. It would be a lot better to
> have something in the machine description that tells us about the default
> terminal.

One more reason to move the default devices qemu creates to a (machine 
specific) config file ...

cheers,
   Gerd