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Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 02/20] XEN-paravirt: Add a flag to allow the VGA

To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 02/20] XEN-paravirt: Add a flag to allow the VGA console to be disabled
From: Alan <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 00:27:56 +0000
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 17:45:41 -0800
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add a flag to allow the VGA console to be disabled.  The VGA code will
> spin forever if there isn't any real VGA hardware, which will happen
> under Xen.

If it is doing this then the real bug should be fixed so that it doesn't
hang in the same way on a physical system which has no VGA.

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