On 08/22/2013 10:12 AM, Ferenc Wagner wrote:> Hi,
>
> I boot lots of headless virtual machines through Syslinux, and it
> bothers me that serial emulation must be turned on for the sake of
> bootloader interaction only. Would it be feasible to add virtio console
> support to Syslinux besides VGA and serial console? Some PCI utility
> functions are certainly there, but is the current architecture up to
> early PCI I/O? Or is this something that the BIOS should emulate, just
> like it makes virtio disks accessible via standard interrupts?
>
BIOS emulation would definitely be better. virtio is really not the
best protocol for console access (it is much too heavyweight), but it is
definitely *doable*.
-hpa