[Qemu-devel] bochs-display and the future of VGA support

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hi!

I just happened to read Gerd Hoffmann's post on the bochs-display [1] driver
and was wondering what the future plans for VGA support are.

Phoronix makes it sound like [2] that VGA support for guests is supposed to
be removed which I find hard to believe. Since once VGA support is gone,
QEMU would no longer be able to run older operating systems which is one of
the key features of an emulator in my opinion.

Can anyone tell me what the plans are?

PS: I'm subscribed to the list, but currently don't receive any mailing
    list mail due to the high volume. So please CC me in your reply.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2018/10/qemu-vga-emulation-and-bochs-display/
> [2] 
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-Legacy-Free-Display

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