Gerd Hoffmann writes:
[...]
>> Libvirt doesn't use '-machine graphics=off' AFAIK, only '-
>> nographic'.
>
> I think that is pretty much the same. Setting "graphichs=off" is one
> of the effects of passing -nographic, and the other effects (like
> setting up default serial + monitor in a differ
Hi,
> > Hmm, why? The user asked for a serial console. Whenever that is
> > provided by seabios builtin support or the sgabios rom doesn't
> > really
> > matter, no?
>
> Surely it has ABI implications for the guest if we stop putting the
> sgabios option ROM into memory - changing layout of R
On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 07:49:03AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 16:11 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 05:04:20PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > One problem we have with the serial console support in seabios and
> > > sgabios:
On Thu, 2017-11-02 at 16:11 +, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 05:04:20PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One problem we have with the serial console support in seabios and
> > sgabios: It can happen that both are activated. We'll go fix that
> > in
> > qemu
On 02/11/2017 17:11, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Historically libvirt will always use '-device sgabios' if the user has
> requested . So if that -device arg is given, I
> think QEMU must honour it, which implies QEMU must disable Seabios'
> own built-in serial console impl in that scenario.
We sh
On Thu, Nov 02, 2017 at 05:04:20PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One problem we have with the serial console support in seabios and
> sgabios: It can happen that both are activated. We'll go fix that in
> qemu, but that'll work for new qemu versions only, not for the old
> already rele
Hi,
One problem we have with the serial console support in seabios and
sgabios: It can happen that both are activated. We'll go fix that in
qemu, but that'll work for new qemu versions only, not for the old
already released ones.
So I think it would be useful if seabios makes sure sgabios and
