Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] q35: Provide improved sample configurations

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

>   q35-emulated.cfg          # emulated guest
>   q35-virtio-common.cfg     # shared by all VirtIO guests
>   q35-virtio-graphical.cfg  # VirtIO guest, graphical console
>   q35-virtio-serial.cfg     # VirtIO guest, serial console

Looks good to me.

> > > +[device "tablet"]
> > > +  driver = "usb-tablet"
> > > +  bus = "usb.0"
> > > +  port = "2"
> > 
> > There is also virtio-tablet, but for a generic config usb is probably
> > the better choice as virtio-tablet is supported by modern linux only (on
> > x86, on arm we have only modern linux anyway so picking virtio-tablet
> > should be fine).
> 
> Okay, I will keep this in mind when working on the
> aarch64/virt sample configuration. We can probably use
> virtio-keyboard-pci and virtio-tablet-pci there, avoiding
> the need to have a USB controller at all.

Not sure whenever we have firmware support for virtio-keyboard (which of
course only matters with virtio-gpu being supported, otherwise we have
to use the serial line anyway to operate the grub boot menu).

cheers,
  Gerd