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Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> 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.
>

I'm lost.  What does 'tunnel curses data over vnc' mean? A new character 
cell based encoding (vs. pixel-based)?

> 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.
>

What's -cga?


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