The kernel has a minimal DRM/KMS driver for the Cirrus device that Qemu emulates, we should enable this in all of the qemu machines so that X can use the modesettings driver for maximum awesomeness. When checking the qemu config for this I discovered that the qemu kernels build support for the Intel GPUs - these should probably be disabled in qemu kernels.
Bruce, punting to you for QEMU support.
These changes have gone missing, putting to implementation while I locate them.
merged to master for qemux86*