From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57436 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIzku-0006NY-B3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:22:09 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIzkt-0007qH-98 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:22:08 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:27537) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIzks-0007q5-UQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:22:07 -0500 Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oAI8M5D7012480 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:22:06 -0500 Message-ID: <4CE4E22A.6040303@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:22:02 +0100 From: Gerd Hoffmann MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] spice: add qxl device References: <1288704898-30234-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <20101116174306.GC4077@redhat.com> <4CE3D875.9020701@redhat.com> <20101117135842.GA13690@redhat.com> <4CE3F2CD.4030701@redhat.com> <20101117164244.GE27909@redhat.com> <4CE40AAF.7090202@redhat.com> <20101117180008.GE29556@redhat.com> <20101118080935.GW7948@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20101118080935.GW7948@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gleb Natapov Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" On 11/18/10 09:09, Gleb Natapov wrote: > On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 08:00:08PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>>>> If so: does qemu >>>>> emulate this correctly? >>>> >>>> It mostly does. >>> >>> I doubt it actually enables/disables the legacy vga ports. >> >> I'll check when I have the time. We can fix it if it doesn't, >> > So many guests (all of them?) just assume that vga ports and > framebuffer is there. So what "fixing" this will buy us? Nothing? Certainly not for the qemu standard vga. The only way for guests is to drive that one is via legacy vga ports and vesa vga bios. Hotplug is never ever going to work here. Also the vga memory window @ 0xa0000 with the piix chipset interactions is good for some extra fun ... cirrus might be fixable to be hotpluggable. It also can be programmed via mmio bar instead of legacy vga ports, so having two cirrus cards in one system might be possible to get work. I doubt it is worth the trouble though. I still think that vga cards should simply be flagged to be not hot-pluggable. cheers, Gerd