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Re: [Xen-devel] Status of ioemu code in unstable?

To: John Byrne <john.l.byrne@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Status of ioemu code in unstable?
From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@xxxxxxx>
Date: 21 Jul 2005 06:36:18 +0200
Cc: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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John Byrne <john.l.byrne@xxxxxx> writes:

> A few more questions. Does the VGA emulation require VT-x?

Yes.

> Could the xen console changes be removed and a consistent model for
> the console be used?

Well, first we'll need a paravirtual framebuffer driver.  Shouldn't be
that hard, I did something simliar for UML some time ago.

I think a console terminal should better be mapped to a virtual serial
port than a linux virtual console, that tends to be work better.

  Gerd

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