Re: [Qemu-discuss] Why arm and aarch64 -M virt boards don't have graphics support?

[Peter Maydell]

On 20 May 2018 at 11:19, Ciro Santilli <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is there a fundamental technical reason, or just was not worth the trouble?
>
> The wiki says https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/ARM
>
>> The only thing it [virt] doesn't have is graphics
>
> and the graphic window indeed does not show on -M virt.

It's slightly out of date, I guess. The board has no
built-in graphics, but it has PCI so you can plug in an
emulated PCI card. From that set, VGA cards will work
with TCG but not KVM (because of the memory-attribute-clash
problem); virtio-gpu should work with both TCG and KVM.

I've never tried to use graphics with the virt board (having
no need for it), but I believe it ought to work. Feel free
to experiment and update the wiki page accordingly.

thanks
-- PMM