From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiIT-00086u-Oe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:42:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiIR-0005xp-S8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:42:09 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QZiIR-0005xb-C0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:42:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:41:51 +0100 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20110623114151.GD14307@redhat.com> References: <4E030501.3040105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E030501.3040105@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wayne Xia Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:18:57PM +0800, Wayne Xia wrote: > Hi, > these 3 patch simply enable qemu-kvm to show a logo picture when it > s start up, following is how to configurate it: > invoke it with params: > -boot (splash_time=,) (splash_filename=,) > the splash_time is in the unit of ms, and its max value is 65535. > this feature is by default on with 5000ms showing up. Real machines have splash screens because they take soo long to initialize. KVM guests go almost instantly to the guest OS, which is a clear step forward. Adding in a 5000ms delay to KVM guests is just a huge, pointless step back again. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|