[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] Make VNC support optional

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 03/11/11 17:35, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2011-03-11 16:11, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> (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).

The problem with this is that it is very non-intuitive if you didn't
specify -nographic and expected this behavior. I think Anthony's
suggestion of -display none is probably the most reasonable way to go.
I'll try and cook up a patch.

Cheers,
Jes