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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5335] Change the way video graphics adapter is selected
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:41:01 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48DF977D.7050401@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1KjkMQ-0001vG-BZ@cvs.savannah.gnu.org>

malc wrote:
> Revision: 5335
>           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5335
> Author:   malc
> Date:     2008-09-28 00:42:05 +0000 (Sun, 28 Sep 2008)
>
> Log Message:
> -----------
> Change the way video graphics adapter is selected
>
> Instead of having (current)three command line switches -std-vga,
> -cirrusvga and -vmwarevga, provide one -vga switch which takes
> an argument, so that:
> qemu -std-vga   becomes qemu -vga std
> qemu -cirrusvga becomes qemu -vga cirrus
> qemu -vmwarevga becomes qemu -vga vmware
>
> Update documentation accordingly.
>   

std is probably more aptly named "vesa".

I'm a little surprised that you didn't maintain the old arguments for 
compatibility.  Is this going to totally break management tools or can 
they cope with this kind of change?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-09-28 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-09-28  0:42 [Qemu-devel] [5335] Change the way video graphics adapter is selected malc
2008-09-28  6:01 ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-28 14:42   ` Anthony Liguori
2008-09-28 15:46     ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-28 14:57   ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-09-28 15:55     ` Blue Swirl
2008-09-28 18:47       ` andrzej zaborowski
2008-09-28 18:09   ` malc
2008-09-28 14:41 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2008-09-29  9:38 ` Daniel P. Berrange

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