Alex wrote:
> "Jan Kiszka" <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote in message 
> news:482DB664.9090205@web.de...
>> This opens a window after the virtual LCD popped up and before the guest
>> starts to boot so that the user can hit a special key. With the real
>> device, you would hold down that button before powering on the hardware,
>> but that won't work with QEMU... :)
> 
> Sorry for my ignorance, but won't a command line switch better fulfill this 
> purpose?
> Then if you really want the popup, you can show it from a launcher script 
> before
> even starting qemu...

That's basically true, and it used to be my first idea as well. But at
that time, I didn't like to add yet another special-purpose switch to
the long list of existing ones.

I still do not like the idea of patch vl.c with MusicPal specifics. But
now I dug out and polished some per-machine-options patch of mine. On
top of it, I have written a fix for the MusicPal, see following postings.

Jan