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Re: FW: [Xen-devel] qemu-dm exit(1) for invalid option '-vncviewer' -- X

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Subject: Re: FW: [Xen-devel] qemu-dm exit(1) for invalid option '-vncviewer' -- Xen #18023
From: "Trolle Selander" <trolle.selander@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:30:12 +0100
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 4:41 PM, John Levon <levon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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

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It may be something as simple as proper mouse tracking, which tends to be atrocious with vnc, but work perfectly with SDL.
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