On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 09:04:41AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
On Thu, May 04, 2023 at 02:28:05PM -0400, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
For what it is worth, I'm not sure sending debug/error messages to the vga screen is a good long-term plan. I fear it will be more frustration than help to users. Sure, having the VM not start isn't a fun experience, but I'm not sure a weird cryptic error message that flashes on the screen for a split second is an improvement.
It surely doesn't make sense for most errors, patch #2 switches over only the errors for unsupported blocksizes. That actually happens in practice. And when the VM doesn't boot the message will typically continue to be displayed ...
I understand. For what it is worth, I'm still unsure this is a good long term plan though.
-Kevin