[Libguestfs] [virt-v2v RFC wave 2 03/10] convert/windows_virtio: restrict the warning with virtio-win.iso absent

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 11:18:01AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 11:55:32AM +0100, Laszlo Ersek wrote:
> > I'm asking now because these simplifications look technically possible
> > even before I start investigating the "OVF video device" topic. I expect
> > the latter to turn into an infinite mess, so if I can (or should) tack
> > the cirrus cleanup patches to the end of my series, I figure I'd like to
> > do that first.
> 
> On the QEMU side, assuming you don't care about guest OS dating back
> from 1995, Cirrus should never be used under any circumstance [1].
> Anywhere that might have used Cirrus should be switched to use VGA. So
> if v2v does have any Cirrus related usage, I'd recommend to swap that
> out as a priority.

Yup, that's what we're doing.

Rich.

> Regards,
> Daniel
> 
> [1] https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful/
>     https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2019/09/display-devices-in-qemu/#tldr
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