From 0cc2b81575b0ce04edaa4a94db91f1cc37292ea6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 Message-Id: <0cc2b81575b0ce04edaa4a94db91f1cc37292ea6@dist-git> From: Pavel Hrdina Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 10:50:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] video: Prefer "bochs" when it's supported. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Fabiano Fidêncio Preferring "bochs" display device is the way to go when dealing with a Linux guest using UEFI and that's quite well described here: https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2019/09/display-devices-in-qemu/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753644 Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio (cherry picked from commit 8f4c53ea960459516794ba533060a176cc26f121) Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1753644 Signed-off-by: Pavel Hrdina --- virtinst/devices/video.py | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/virtinst/devices/video.py b/virtinst/devices/video.py index 3ebc561f..fcca91b6 100644 --- a/virtinst/devices/video.py +++ b/virtinst/devices/video.py @@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ class DeviceVideo(Device): if guest.has_gl(): return "virtio" return "qxl" + if (guest.is_uefi() and + guest.lookup_domcaps().supports_video_bochs()): + return "bochs" if guest.conn.is_qemu(): return "qxl" return "vga" -- 2.23.0