[OE-core] [PATCH 3/5] qemux86: support X11 when QEMU is emulating a different GPU than vmware

[Burton, Ross]

On 26 August 2014 18:34, Max Eliaser <max.eliaser at intel.com> wrote:
> QEMU is capable of emulating four different VGA adapters: cirrus, std, vmware,
> and QXL. By adding the cirrus and fbdev X.Org drivers to the qemux86 image,
> the image can be made to launch an X server on when cirrus and std are chosen,
> in addition to just vmware. (The build of QEMU in OE-Core appears to have QXL
> disabled, meaning a driver for it is unnecessary.)

I knew there was something missing...

http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/gpu/drm/cirrus/Kconfig

The kernel has a minimal DRM/KMS driver for the Cirrus that qemu
emulates, so we should also add xf86-video-modesettings driver to this
list and ensure that the qemu images enable this kernel driver.

Ross