Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/2] libxl: Fix nographic with upstream qemu

[Sander Eikelenboom <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Monday, November 25, 2013, 8:28:27 PM, you wrote:

> 2013/11/25 Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>

>> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 03:57:09PM +0100, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>> > Fix xl nographic parameter with upstream qemu using vga none
>> > instead of -nographic qemu parameter not working anymore and
>> > deprecated.
>> >
>> > Changes from v1:
>> > - libxl_create.c:
>> >  - add vga=none if nographic=1 only with upstream qemu
>> >  - move setdefault of nographic up, otherwise xl create will
>> >    fail if nographic xl paramter is not set
>>
>> Could you tell me where it is said that -nographic is deprecated?
>>

> On one old qemu-devel post if I remember good, I not found it now with fast
> search.

this one of mine:
http://osdir.com/ml/xen-development/2013-10/msg00134.html

which refers to a post on qemu-devel:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/172385

--
Sander

>>
>> Also, I've did few tests, and it look like nographic=1 still works well.
>>

> When I did a tests time ago with upstream qemu gave always cirrus vga with
> hvm domUs, also with vga and stdvga not setted and nographic on.
> Tried also removing my patches about -nodefaults but same result.
> When I did this patches I found that xl setted cirrus in any case and also
> with -nographic with upstream qemu not override -vga or -device.


>>
>> In QEMU, "-vga none" and "-nographic" are two different things. The
>> first parameter disable the graphic emulation, which mean you can have a
>> guest without graphic card (lspci will show that). The second one is to
>> disable any graphic output (sdl, vnc, ...).
>>
>> The only issue might be the documentation.
>>

> Sorry, about qemu traditional I haven't well documented, but on this patch
> I setted nographic equivalent to vga none only with upstream qemu, so the
> qemu-trad remain correctly.
> Another note, I use spice with upstream qemu instead of vnc (because is
> largely better), probably -nographic not disable it.

> Sumarizing, previous patch about vga none after new version following your
> advice can be useful in any case.
> About nographic instead I am doubtful about how to proceed, I think,
> however that an improvements and/or more documentations are needed.
> Ideas or tips about nographic?

> Thanks for any reply and sorry for my bad english.


>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> --
>> Anthony PERARD
>>


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