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Re: [Xen-devel] Disabling cirrus-vga

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 10:45:29AM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:25 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:03:40AM +0000, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> >> Trolle Selander wrote:
> >>
> >> > Maybe it would be a good idea if the "nographic" option actually removed
> >> > all virtual graphics cards? Is anyone out there actually running with
> >> > the nographic option and still depending on the presence of a virtual
> >> > VGA card in the VM? Until this thread, I actually thought the nographic
> >> > option did just this, and it still strikes me as a more "logical"
> >> > behavior, but maybe changing it now would break existing setups.
> >> >
> >>
> >> nographic is an old qemu cmd line option (since 2003), I doubt people
> >> would be very happy if we change the meaning of it.
> >
> > Absolutely not !
> >
> >> However we could add a new one.
> >
> > Latest upstream QEMU now has a sane arg for specifying video device
> > type
> >
> >         -vga [std|cirrus|vmware]
> >
> 
> I am wondering what is the advantage of vmware over std/cirrus? In
> which case we should use vmware??

I believe it allows much larger screen resolutions. The downside of
course is that you need special drivers in the guest.

Daniel
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