On 13/07/2015 13:45, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >>>> > > > and virtio-vga is only compiled on 64-bit Intel? >>> > > >>> > > There is virtio-gpu-pci ... >>> > > >>> > > Any specific reason why we need vga compatibility on !x86? >> > >> > I was actually thinking about 32-bit x86. :) I agree that !x86 is not >> > necessary. > Yea, setting it for i386 makes sense indeed. Just went out of my focus, > last time I used qemu-system-i386 was a few years back ... > > Any reason why one would use qemu-system-i386 instead of > qemu-system-x86_64 btw? I suspect a 32bit host machine is the only one?
Yes, I think so. Well, for TCG there is a difference of course. Laszlo was using qemu-system-i386 because OVMF doesn't support our x86_64 layout for the SMM state save area. Paolo
