Re: [Qemu-discuss] Booting GUI ubuntu VM on Aarch64

[Yehuda Yitschak]

> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Alexander Spyridakis
> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 17:08
> To: Yehuda Yitschak
> Cc: Alexander Spyridakis; Jérémy Fanguède; address@hidden; Peter Maydell
> Subject: Re: [Qemu-discuss] Booting GUI ubuntu VM on Aarch64

>> On 15 February 2016 at 15:42, Yehuda Yitschak <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I want to use KVM tough it looks like a not a trivial hack for the non QEMU 
>> expert like me :)
>> Would  you mind sharing how you achieved graphics in your demo above ?
>> did you use TCG or did you also go through these workarounds ?
>
> That is an old ARMv7 KVM demo on the vexpress-a15 machine model (instead of 
> virt). For that model you need a kernel with the HDLCD driver (PL111) and 
> also to modify hw/display/framebuffer.c with the hack that I pointed in my 
> previous mail. No PCI devices in the vexpress-a15 model, so you won't have to 
> patch QEMU/KVM with cache coherency workarounds.

Thanks, ill try that out
Apart from that, should I change something the make QEMU open in graphics 
window instead of monitor  window ?

Regards

Yehuda

>  Regards.