[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/5] Introduce -display argument

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 03/14/2011 07:28 AM, Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Jes Sorensen<Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>
> This patch introduces a -display argument which consolidates the
> setting of the display mode. Valid options are:
> sdl/curses/default/nographic
>
> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen<Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>

I'd suggest using 'serial' instead of 'nographic' as that makes it more 
obvious to the user that they need to configure a serial session.

I would drop 'default' for no other reason than we don't really expose 
default as a choice anywhere else and I'm struggling to justify it to 
myself.

I think we also need to leave room to make -display take per-display 
specific parameters via QemuOpts.  That said, converting -vnc to 
QemuOpts is hard so what I'd suggest doing is just cheating for the 
moment.  Document the option to take per-display args after the main 
display, and then do something like:

if (strstarts(optarg, "vnc,", &p)) {
      vnc_display_init(p);
}

We have a bunch of little stupid SDL options like -sdl-no-frame and it 
would be good to eventually be able to express that as -display 
sdl,frame=off

Regards,

Anthony Liguori