Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 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.

I'm on the fence because while I like what I've posted, I'd like to 
eventually tunnel the curses data over VNC in which case, having a 
separate option makes sense.  -curses would imply that the GUI would be 
rendered with curses.

So, 'qemu -curses' does what you think, 'qemu -cga telnet::1024,server 
-vnc :2' does what I want and still lets you interact with VNC, and then 
down the road 'qemu -cga vnc:org.qemu.vga -vnc :2' allows CGA tunneling 
over VNC.

But this is really future looking so I'm somewhat indifferent to what we 
do now.  I'll update the patch according to whatever the consensus is.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori