On 7 May 2018 at 13:11, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> 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