[Qemu-devel] Suggestion: default to -monitor stdio

[Qemu-devel] Suggestion: default to -monitor stdio

[Richard Neill]

Dear All,

I've just started using QEMU - and, since this is my first post here, 
I'd like to begin by saying thank you very much.
Anyway, just a suggestion:

I think that the default for -monitor in graphical mode ought to be 
stdio. I don't know where "vc" actually goes, but when I launch qemu 
from a konsole (in kde), the monitor is unavailable, unless I add the option

-monitor stdio

For interest, what I am *attempting* to do is to get Dragon Naturally 
Speaking running under Linux. (Qemu -> WinXP, and use VNC to send the 
keyboard events back to Linux...)


Also, is it possible to set the host screen resolution to higher than 
1024x768 ?

Best wishes

Richard

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Richard Neill, Trinity College, Cambridge, CB21TQ, U.K.

Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion: default to -monitor stdio

[Jim C. Brown]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 05:38:12PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I've just started using QEMU - and, since this is my first post here, 
> I'd like to begin by saying thank you very much.
> Anyway, just a suggestion:
> 
> I think that the default for -monitor in graphical mode ought to be 
> stdio. I don't know where "vc" actually goes, but when I launch qemu 
> from a konsole (in kde), the monitor is unavailable, unless I add the option
> 
> -monitor stdio

This used to be the default (in fact, the only version available for the monitor)
until 0.6.0

The default was made -monitor vc because in Windows stdio didn't work.
It only works in windows if you include windows specific code to attach a
console to the process ... which Fabrice choose not to include (but which is
in the windows port of qemu i believe). This is annoying for non-windows
users of qemu, but at least it is consistent across host OSes this way.

You need to do a 'Ctrl-Alt-1' or 'Ctrl-Alt-2' as I recall, to use the VC
monitor.

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Re: [Qemu-devel] Suggestion: default to -monitor stdio

[Richard Neill]

Ah - thank you! All is great - much appreciated.

Now I see where the output is going. I'd tried Ctrl-Alt-F1,2.
Sorry - I think this is (another) thing to add to the docs, since I 
didn't see it there.

Best wishes

Richard


P.S. WinXP + SP1 + SP2 now works almost flawlessly on Qemu. (Well, at 
least as well as Windows ever does!). So far, my only wishes would be:

* Mic input

* Support for Wheel-Mouse

* Option for higher screen res. (What about using VNC as the graphics 
driver?)

* Option for use of host devices (parport, ttyS0, usb...)
   This would be *really* cute - and I should imagine, really hard to do!





Jim C. Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 05:38:12PM +0000, Richard Neill wrote:
> 
>>Dear All,
>>
>>I've just started using QEMU - and, since this is my first post here, 
>>I'd like to begin by saying thank you very much.
>>Anyway, just a suggestion:
>>
>>I think that the default for -monitor in graphical mode ought to be 
>>stdio. I don't know where "vc" actually goes, but when I launch qemu 
>>from a konsole (in kde), the monitor is unavailable, unless I add the option
>>
>>-monitor stdio
> 
> 
> This used to be the default (in fact, the only version available for the monitor)
> until 0.6.0
> 
> The default was made -monitor vc because in Windows stdio didn't work.
> It only works in windows if you include windows specific code to attach a
> console to the process ... which Fabrice choose not to include (but which is
> in the windows port of qemu i believe). This is annoying for non-windows
> users of qemu, but at least it is consistent across host OSes this way.
> 
> You need to do a 'Ctrl-Alt-1' or 'Ctrl-Alt-2' as I recall, to use the VC
> monitor.
> 

-- 
rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk  **  http://www.richardneill.org
Richard Neill, Trinity College, Cambridge, CB21TQ, U.K.