On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 04:34:42PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > I had assumed that because it was so strange no-one would be using it,
> > > > so I deliberately dropped that change. Evidently I was wrong. If
> > > > this is a feature that is seriously used then I could reinstate it but
> > > > I think it should come with a health warning.
> >
> > What might be useful is allowing "wait" mode for VNC like you can with
> > telnet serial console. I'm suspecting that's the only reason you would
> > ever want -vncviewer (to catch the BIOS screen).
>
> If we launched it from 'xm', I'd xm would have to wait on xenstore for
> the VNC port number to be written, at which point it can immediately
> launch vncviewer. We do this in virt-install and its quick enough to
> catch the BIOS screen.
I was thinking more about the case when DISPLAY isn't set by the
virt-install user at all.
> > > I think it should be killed - its easy todo it in the 'xm' client code,
> > > after all xm already knows how to spawn 'xm console' for text mode
> > > display - this is just same use case in graphical mode.
> >
> > Heck, then can we kill SDL, which does exactly the same thing, but in
> > xend?
>
> It'd get my vote - a consistent source of pain & bug reports, but quite
> a few people seem to like this so I doubt its viable to kill SDL :-(
What do they want it for?
regards
john
