On 26 September 2012 08:09, Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> wrote: > On 26.09.2012 01:19, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Combining -nographic and -daemonize don't make sense. I'd rather error >> out with this combination. >> >> I think what the user is after is -daemonize -vga none OR -daemonize >> -display none. > > So what's the difference? > > I know lots of people use -nographic -daemonize to run headless > guests in background (like, for example, a router). I guess it > come way before -vga option has been introduced, but at least I > know about -vga (but not about -vga none). For one, I never saw > -display before. And it looks like -nographic is a synonym for > -display none, and -curses is a synonym for -display curses.
-nographic does about three different things at once (and I think some of its effects aren't documented). It's a legacy option retained for backward compatibility with old command lines. If you want something that is non-confusing and makes sense, then use -display none to disable graphics, -serial stdio to send serial to stdio, and so on. These newer options do one clear thing each and can be combined straightforwardly. > It looks like we have way too many confusing options doing the > same thing. And I think they should be consistent, at least > when they SMELL like they do the same thing, instead of forbidding > one or another in some situations. I'd love to drop -nographic but we'd break huge numbers of existing setups... -- PMM
