On 22/04/13 20:31, Michael Mol wrote: > On 04/22/2013 05:40 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: >> Am 22.04.2013 03:06, schrieb Michael Mol: >>> So, I'm setting up number of kvm guests running Gentoo. KVM guests have >>> a pretty limited set of device drivers they need to support. >>> ... >> >> [1] http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Virtio >> > > For video, I tend to use Cirrus. (I'll get the serial console stuff > figured out eventually; I know how that works in the guest, but haven't > prodded it in the host.) I didn't see a guest-side driver for vmvga, and > I have no idea what qxl is. (I didn't hit search engines for it, I was > merely searching around via menuconfig's / search.) > ...
qxl is the guest video driver for "spice", a vnc/rdesktop like connection to the guest either via the libvirt console, or across the network vnc fashion. Its supposed to be "great", but maybe I need to tune it some more as I cant see much of an advantage over the other two yet. The virtio stuff is good, but can be a chore to setup - especially in windows guests (have to download drivers then spend extra time/reboots to install them, and disks especially are a pain to get working). BillK
