From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KkFD9-0004Wz-GI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:35 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KkFD1-0004Nr-CH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40640 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KkFD0-0004NL-T1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:27 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:60782) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KkFCy-0004Gq-9l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:24 -0400 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8T9c2Za019516 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:02 -0400 Received: from file.fab.redhat.com (file.fab.redhat.com [10.33.63.6]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8T9c1Sj015293 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:38:01 -0400 Received: from file.fab.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by file.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m8T9c17F003584 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:38:01 +0100 Received: (from berrange@localhost) by file.fab.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m8T9c15F003580 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:38:01 +0100 Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:38:01 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [5335] Change the way video graphics adapter is selected Message-ID: <20080929093801.GD31811@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:42:06AM +0000, 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. This breaks compatability with existing management tools for merely cosmetic benefits. Please add back in support for the existing syntax, in the same way that -hda, etc was preserved when we added -driver syntax. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://ovirt.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :|