[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add emulation for VirtIO Frame Buffer device

[Alexander Graf]

On 03.11.2009, at 07:22, Avi Kivity wrote:

> On 11/03/2009 12:11 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> > Since Linux now understands how to talk to us graphics over VirtIO,  
> > let's
> > add support for it in qemu.
> >
> > The good part about graphics over VirtIO is that you don't need PCI  
> > to use
> > it. So if there's any platform out there trying to use graphics,  
> > but not
> > capable of MMIO, it can use this one!
>
> Which platforms are these?

For now S390 comes to mind first ... :-). I'd use and improve the  
spice stuff, but that hasn't exactly been open-source friendly so far...

Alex