Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] Make VNC support optional

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 March 2011 14:55, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 03/11/2011 08:54 AM, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> On 03/11/11 15:39, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> So what ends up being the default display if VNC and SDL are both
>>> disabled?  Have you tested this?
>>
>> Then you cry :) actually you just don't get video output, a bit like if
>> you run with -nographic, except it doesn't try to force taking over
>> stdio. This is intentional btw :)
>
> Hrm, that doesn't sound very safe to me.  Forcing -nographic would be better
> IMHO.

Personally I'd rather -nographic didn't take over stdio either:
it should just disable graphics, and if you want serial on your
stdio you can say "-serial stdio"; it's a bit non-orthogonal
for an option which is about how we handle video output to have
a non-overridable side-effect of redirecting the serial port.

(Also the "-nographic" running of serial over stdio doesn't let
you kill qemu with ^C, the way "-serial stdio" does, which is
just annoyingly inconsistent...)

-- PMM