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Ian Jackson wrote:
> Anthony Liguori writes ("[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses
>   
>> over a character driver"): I love the -curses feature but I really
>> wanted to use it over a telnet: character device.  This patch
>> enables this and changes the syntax of the -curses argument to take
>> a character device.
>>     
>
> Surely it would be better to introduce a new option and leave the old
> one (which people might be using) behaving the old way ?
>
>   

-curses hasn't been in any official release (well, kvm-63 will be out 
soon), so users haven't yet had a chance to rely on it.


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