>> Well, that should be possible, I'm not sure whether it desirable
>> (performancewise), because then every int 0x10 invocation means a switch from
>> guest to host (slow).
>
>True, but 0x10 is only called for mode changes anyway unless you really want
>to emulate a vesa1.2 card which uses paged video buffers instead of contigious
>mapped buffers... probably not so a plugin impl. should be okay...
But int 0x10 also belongs to the "regular" VGA BIOS... and you can't
selectively forward interrupts to the host...
Implementing VESA as a real BIOS doesn't sound much more difficult to me than
implementing it as a plugin... Jeroen, why do you think doing it as a plugin is
better ?
-- Ramon