Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] vga: print friendly error message in case multiple vga devices are added

[Peter Maydell]

On 7 May 2018 at 13:11, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>> This seems like a bit of an irritating reason to refuse to
>> allow multiple VGA devices though, since we could make
>> them work by having the vmstate be not-global.
>
> Multiple vga devices will also try to use the same isa vga
> ports.  Seems that doesn't make qemu abort any more, which
> used to happen in older versions.

Oh, good point. Shouldn't we be checking for that on
some other thing than whether global_vmstate is set here,
though? Otherwise it won't work consistently for the
vga devices which pass 'false'.

thanks
-- PMM