[SeaBIOS] [PATCH] don't expose pvpanic device in the UI

[Paolo Bonzini]

> > for example: in Windows(let's say XP) the Device manager will open a
> > "new device" wizard and the device will appear as an unrecognized
> > device.  On a cluster with hundreds of such VMs, If that cluster has
> > a health monitoring service it may show all the VMs in a "not healthy"
> > state.

Is this just a hypothesis, or is there really such broken monitoring
software?

> > This patch is a workaround to not show pvpanic in UI to avoid the
> > problem in Windows.

It's not a workaround, it is a proper bugfix.

What versions of Windows did you test it on?  Did it hide the New
Hardware wizard properly (I think it appears only on XP/2003)?

Paolo