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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] ui: improve -show-cursor deprecation message
Date: Tue,  7 Apr 2020 11:36:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200407093617.10058-1-kraxel@redhat.com> (raw)

Specifically explain what users should do in case they don't use
-display yet and depend on the qemu picking the ui for them.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
---
 softmmu/vl.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index 58a40bcfc19c..0640d481df06 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -3531,8 +3531,10 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
                 no_shutdown = 1;
                 break;
             case QEMU_OPTION_show_cursor:
-                warn_report("The -show-cursor option is deprecated, "
-                            "use -display {sdl,gtk},show-cursor=on instead");
+                warn_report("The -show-cursor option is deprecated. Please "
+                            "add show-cursor=on to your -display options.");
+                warn_report("When using the default display you can use "
+                            "-display default,show-cursor=on");
                 dpy.has_show_cursor = true;
                 dpy.show_cursor = true;
                 break;
-- 
2.18.2



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