On 2011-03-11 16:11, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 11 March 2011 14:55, Anthony Liguori <anth...@codemonkey.ws> 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...)
^A-x to exit qemu, ^A-c to enable the monitor: -nographic comes with -serial mon:stdio. That's still suboptimal as we have no handy way to reconfigure this (there's -nodefaults, but that drops everything). Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux
