From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:49:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55A3A5C8.2060201@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1436787942.26533.21.camel@redhat.com>
On 13/07/2015 13:45, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> > > > and virtio-vga is only compiled on 64-bit Intel?
>>> > >
>>> > > There is virtio-gpu-pci ...
>>> > >
>>> > > Any specific reason why we need vga compatibility on !x86?
>> >
>> > I was actually thinking about 32-bit x86. :) I agree that !x86 is not
>> > necessary.
> Yea, setting it for i386 makes sense indeed. Just went out of my focus,
> last time I used qemu-system-i386 was a few years back ...
>
> Any reason why one would use qemu-system-i386 instead of
> qemu-system-x86_64 btw? I suspect a 32bit host machine is the only one?
Yes, I think so.
Well, for TCG there is a difference of course. Laszlo was using
qemu-system-i386 because OVMF doesn't support our x86_64 layout for the
SMM state save area.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-13 11:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-11 17:55 [Qemu-devel] selecting VIRTIO_INPUT and VIRTIO_VGA Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-13 7:32 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-07-13 10:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-07-13 11:45 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-07-13 11:49 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-07-20 18:52 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-07-20 19:06 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-07-21 12:08 ` Alexander Graf
2015-07-21 12:48 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-07-21 12:51 ` Marc Zyngier
2015-07-25 9:49 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2015-07-26 9:31 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-07-26 10:17 ` Peter Maydell
2015-07-26 10:40 ` Peter Maydell
2015-07-26 11:22 ` Laszlo Ersek
2015-07-27 7:52 ` Marc Zyngier
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