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-rw-r--r--sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c b/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
index 4661f35..62c9bf3 100644
--- a/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
+++ b/sys/dev/vt/hw/vga/vt_vga.c
@@ -1214,7 +1214,6 @@ vga_init(struct vt_device *vd)
if (vd->vd_softc == NULL)
vd->vd_softc = (void *)&vga_conssoftc;
sc = vd->vd_softc;
- textmode = 0;
if (vd->vd_flags & VDF_DOWNGRADE && vd->vd_video_dev != NULL)
vga_pci_repost(vd->vd_video_dev);
@@ -1229,6 +1228,13 @@ vga_init(struct vt_device *vd)
bus_space_map(sc->vga_reg_tag, VGA_REG_BASE, VGA_REG_SIZE, 0,
&sc->vga_reg_handle);
+ /*
+ * If "hw.vga.textmode" is not set and we're running on hypervisor,
+ * we use text mode by default, this is because when we're on
+ * hypervisor, vt(4) is usually much slower in graphics mode than
+ * in text mode, especially when we're on Hyper-V.
+ */
+ textmode = vm_guest != VM_GUEST_NO;
TUNABLE_INT_FETCH("hw.vga.textmode", &textmode);
if (textmode) {
vd->vd_flags |= VDF_TEXTMODE;
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