[PATCH 2/3] ui: Switch "-display sdl" to use the QAPI parser
Thomas Huth
thuth at redhat.com
Tue May 17 13:18:48 UTC 2022
On 17/05/2022 13.19, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini at redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On 5/17/22 10:34, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> This remains, and that's fine. One step at time.
>>> Not sure how we want to proceed with that in the long run, though
>>> ... IIRC clearly, Paolo once said that it doesn't really belong into
>>> "-display" anyway and should be handled with the separate "-vnc"
>>> option instead?
>>
>> Not me, Gerd
>> (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210825092023.81396-2-thuth@redhat.com/T/#e8c4f826cc8ff48b9afad37703e11704137f540c8):
>>
>>> Other way around, -display vnc should be dropped. -display is about
>>> local displays, and there can be only one instance. -vnc / -spice
>>> enable remote access, and this can be done in addition to a local
>>> display.
>>> not possible:
>>> -display gtk + -display sdl
>>> possible:
>>> -display gtk + -vnc
>>> -display gtk + -vnc + -spice
>>> -display none + -vnc + -spice
>>
>> For what it's worth, Libvirt uses both -vnc and -spice, so we might
>> very well proceed with Gerd's idea. If we don't like -vnc and -spice
>> then it may be possible to QOMify them and go with -object.
>
> Are we ready to deprecate -display vnc?
If nobody disagrees, I'd say yes.
Thomas
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