[libvirt] [PATCH] The -vga CLI arg accepts qxl in qemu 1.2+ always

Guannan Ren gren at redhat.com
Fri Jan 4 07:34:40 UTC 2013


On 01/04/2013 08:40 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 04:42 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> The -vga command always accepts qxl in 1.2 and newer.
> Are you sure?  I thought qemu ./configure allows a choice of which
> graphics engines to support, and that you can compile qxl out (distros
> don't do that, but a self-built qemu might support -vga but not QXL).  I
> think that rather than blindly setting this cap, we need to find the
> right QMP command to check which graphics engines are supported.
>

      When I tried qemu(1.3.50)
      ./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu --enable-debug 
--disable-spice

      #./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -h|grep -i qxl
       -vga [std|cirrus|vmware|qxl|xenfb|none]

      And it seem like no such QMP command for this on my qemu.

      Guannan







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