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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] regression in 2.8: unable to exit screen grab in
 SDL mode
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Cole Robinson <crobinso@redhat.com>

On 15.12.2016 20:19, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 09:15:27PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 05:25:50PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>   Hi,
>>>
>>>>>>> The problem always reproduces for me:
>>>>>>> - start qemu with -sdl
>>>>>>> - wait for guest to boot
>>>>>>> - click anywhere within guest screen
>>>>>>> - message "press ctrl+alt to exit capture" appears on screen,
>>>>>>>   but pressing that immediately restarts capture again
>>>
>>> [ 2.6 good, 2.7, 2.8 bad ]
>>>
>>>> I'd say SDL is mostly useless with this bug.
>>>>
>>>> Do we fix this or disable SDL altogether?
>>>
>>> Well, it can't be *that* bad, otherwise it would not went unnoticed for
>>> a whole release cycle.
>>
>> That's what I'm saying, maybe no one uses SDL anymore.

It's maybe not as common as the GTK interface, but as far as I know
people still use the SDL interface. For example here:

 https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/922076

... so I would recommend to keep the SDL code in QEMU.

 Thomas