From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>,
Mark Wu <wudxw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Cc: afaerber@suse.de, aliguori@amazon.com, Alex Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH v2 2/2] Fix return value of vga initlization on ppc
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:26:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531DAF5A.8090204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <531DAEA5.50208@ozlabs.ru>
Il 10/03/2014 13:23, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> On 03/10/2014 05:07 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Il 08/03/2014 14:26, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>>>> I think that after this patch, "-nodefaults -device VGA" will get a USB
>>>>> controller that it didn't get before.
>>>
>>> I suspect what was meant by "the machine not aware of the graphics device"
>>> is that the guest won't work with VGA and without keyboard (default
>>> console will be vga + keyboard and not serial) which is USB and this is why
>>> the patch is trying to add USB.
>>
>> But with -nodefaults QEMU should never be adding USB.
>
> As I was told in this list before, even with -nodefaults, QEMU should not
> create a machine which is known for not working or not being supported.
> Having VGA and not having any input device is kind of such a config, no?
-nodefaults is exactly the opposite of that: no magic whatsoever. No
VGA, no serial, nothing.
And especially, with -nodefaults adding a VGA means just that: adding a VGA.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-10 12:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-07 9:37 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] Fix vga_interface_type for command '-device VGA' Mark Wu
2014-03-07 9:37 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] Fix return value of vga initlization on ppc Mark Wu
2014-03-07 9:43 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-08 13:26 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-09 18:07 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-10 12:23 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-10 12:26 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2014-03-10 12:45 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2014-03-10 13:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2014-03-10 14:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Mark Wu
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