On Tue, 15 Jun 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Display works, requires truecolor framebuffer with 16 or 32 bpp on the > host. 32bpp is recommended. The framebuffer is used as-is, qemu > doesn't try to switch modes. With LCD displays mode switching is pretty > pointless IMHO, also it wouldn't work anyway with the most common > fbdev drivers (vesafb, KMS). Guest display is centered on the host > screen. > > Mouse works, uses /dev/input/mice. > > Keyboard works. Guest screen has whatever keymap you load inside > the guest. Text windows (monitor, serial, ...) have a simple en-us > keymap. Good enougth to type monitor commands. Not goot enougth to > work seriously on a serial terminal. But the qemu terminal emulation > isn't good enougth for that anyway ;) > > Hot keys: > Ctrl-Alt-F<nr> -> host console switching. > Ctrl-Alt-<nr> -> qemu console switching. > Ctrl-Alt-ESC -> exit qemu. > > Special feature: Sane console switching. Switching away stops screen > updates. Switching back redraws the screen. When started from the > linux console qemu uses the vt you've started it from (requires just > read/write access to /dev/fb0). When starting from somewhere else qemu > tries to open a unused virtual terminal and switch to it (usually > requires root privileges to open /dev/tty<nr>). > > For some strange reason console switching from X11 to qemu doesn't work. > Anything else (including X11 -> text console -> qemu) works fine. To be > investigated ... > > Can be enabled/disabled via monitor, use "change fbdev [ on | off ]"
the patch still doesn't use the display allocator interface, but it shouldn't be difficult to implement support for it on top of this patch, so it is fine by me.
