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
