From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41778 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Py5JJ-00034Q-RI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:35:41 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py5J5-0001Xi-KN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:35:29 -0500 Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:31440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Py5J5-0001Tq-9Z for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:35:15 -0500 Message-ID: <4D7A4F3D.8030506@siemens.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:35:09 +0100 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1299854234-22003-1-git-send-email-Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> <4D7A3433.2060006@codemonkey.ws> <4D7A37A6.7010300@redhat.com> <4D7A37ED.7020505@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] Make VNC support optional List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Jes Sorensen , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 2011-03-11 16:11, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 11 March 2011 14:55, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> On 03/11/2011 08:54 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote: >>> On 03/11/11 15:39, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>>> So what ends up being the default display if VNC and SDL are both >>>> disabled? Have you tested this? >>> >>> Then you cry :) actually you just don't get video output, a bit like if >>> you run with -nographic, except it doesn't try to force taking over >>> stdio. This is intentional btw :) >> >> Hrm, that doesn't sound very safe to me. Forcing -nographic would be better >> IMHO. > > Personally I'd rather -nographic didn't take over stdio either: > it should just disable graphics, and if you want serial on your > stdio you can say "-serial stdio"; it's a bit non-orthogonal > for an option which is about how we handle video output to have > a non-overridable side-effect of redirecting the serial port. > > (Also the "-nographic" running of serial over stdio doesn't let > you kill qemu with ^C, the way "-serial stdio" does, which is > just annoyingly inconsistent...) ^A-x to exit qemu, ^A-c to enable the monitor: -nographic comes with -serial mon:stdio. That's still suboptimal as we have no handy way to reconfigure this (there's -nodefaults, but that drops everything). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux