Re: [Qemu-devel] Why is SeaBIOS used with -kernel?

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Apr 01, 2016 at 10:51:31AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/04/2016 10:47, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > It's so we can handle error reports.  When someone reports that
> > libguestfs "hangs", it's sometimes useful to know if the BIOS was
> > entered or not, since it points the finger at either qemu, BIOS or
> > kernel.  (Remember we have to be able to run on a whole variety of
> > Linux distros which often have old/broken/random qemu/bios/kernel).
> 
> Sure, but that can be an extra option if sgabios adds overhead.
> 
> Anyhow, you probably want "-vga none" too.

That's the qemu option?  Currently we use
  -nodefconfig -nodefaults -display none
which I assumed would do the same thing (ie. not add any default
devices).  Does -vga none do more than this?

Rich.

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