Re: [Qemu-devel] Why does -device qxl-vga not suppress default vga?

[Markus Armbruster]

Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> writes:

> On 05/13/11 16:18, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> VGA, cirrus-vga and vmware-svga do.  Gerd, you added it (commit
>> a19cbfb3), care to explain?
>
> Just forgot to add it to the list when merging.
> I'll go stuff a patch into the spice patch queue.
>
> Does "-device VGA" work these days btw?
> Last time I tries it didn't due to some init order issues.

docs/qdev-device-use.txt on -device with graphics devices:

    Bug: the new way doesn't work for machine type "pc", because it
    violates obscure device initialization ordering constraints.

I'm working on an update for qdev-device-use.txt, and I plan to
retest the bug.