On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 15:06 -0400, Marian Krcmarik wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsulli...@opensourcedevel.com> > > To: spice-de...@freedesktop.org > > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:14:19 PM > > Subject: [Spice-devel] nographic option > > Hello, all. I was a little surprised to see in > > http://spice-space.org/page/Running > Most likely it's not the best example cli. > > >that qemu is invoked with the > > -nographic option. Later documents do not have that in their examples. > > Is there any advantage to invoking it? Thanks - John > > Take a look at man qemu:) I believe it's described well: > > Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this option, you can > totally disable graphical output so that QEMU is a simple command line > application. The emulated serial port is redirected on the console. > Therefore, you can still use QEMU to debug a Linux kernel with a serial > console. <snip> <grin> This time I did read it :) That's why I was surprised to see the recommendation to include it in the SPICE documentation I referenced. Doesn't spice normally replace sdl? If I am using spice as my graphics display, why would I include -nographic? Thanks - John
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