On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:47:17PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:41:25PM +0200, Pritesh Kothari wrote:
> > I think we need to add an explicit tag to represent video devices
> > real soon. At very least we need to be able to indicate the type
> > of video card - QEMU supports 4 already vga, cirrus, vmwarevga
> > and xenfb. We probably also need to be able to indicate whether
> > a video card supports multiple monitors / outputs, and the amont
> > of Video RAM, etc.
agreed
> in any case how about adding "multihead" and
"3Daccel" to it and renaming ram to vram, something like this:
>
> <video>
> <model type='cirrus' vram='500' multihead='2'
3Daccel='yes'/>
> </video>
Sure, vram seems fine. I think i'd call multihead 'monitors' or
'heads'.
unfortunately the number of heads might not be sufficient, e.g. with 4
heads you could have 4 in line or 2x2, the geometry and relative
positioning will probably be needed in some way.
Daniel
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