On 03.11.2009, at 07:34, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 11/03/2009 08:27 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
How does it work today?
You boot into a TERM=dumb line based emulation on 3270 (worst thing
haunting people's nightmares ever), trying to get out of that mode
as quickly as possible and off into SSH / VNC.
Despite the coolness factor, IMO a few minutes during install time
do not justify a new hardware model and a new driver.
It's more than just coolness factor. There are use cases out there (www.susestudio.com
) that don't want to rely on the guest exporting a VNC server to the
outside just to access graphics. You also want to see boot messages,
have a console login screen, be able to debug things without switching
between virtio-console and vnc, etc. etc.
The hardware model isn't exactly new either. It's just the next
logical step to a full PV machine using virtio. If the virtio-fb stuff
turns out to be really fast and reliable, I could even imagine it
being the default target for kvm on ppc as well, as we can't switch
resolutions on the fly there atm.
Does installation over vnc work?
Yes, but it requires a working network setup. That's a pretty
requirement on guests IMHO.
Why? the guest will typically have networking when it's set up, so
it should have network access during install. You can easily use
slirp redirection and the built-in dhcp server to set this up with
relatively few hassles.
That's how I use it right now. It's no fun.
Alex
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