On 03.11.2009, at 07:21, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 11/03/2009 12:09 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
When we want to create a full VirtIO based machine, we're still
missing
graphics output. Fortunately, Linux provides us with most of the
frameworks
to render text and everything, we only need to implement a transport.
So this is a frame buffer backend written for VirtIO. Using this
and my
patch to qemu, you can use paravirtualized graphics.
What does this do that cirrus and/or vmware-vga don't?
Work on non-MMIO machines.
This is especially important on machines that can't do MMIO, as all
current
graphics implementations qemu emulates I'm aware of so far fail here.
s390 virtual desktops?
Well - have you ever tried installing SLES / RHEL on an S390? If not,
give it a shot and comment again :-)
Alex
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