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Re: FW: [Xen-devel] qemu-dm exit(1) for invalid option '-vncviewer' -- X
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:46:42AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > This option works (worked) by passing the caller's display and
> > xauthority through xm and xend to qemu. qemu then connects to it
> > later. This is a very remarkable way of going about things. Its
> > security properties are problematic from several points of view.
> >
> > 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).
> 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?
I must admit when I discovered this, I blanched.
john
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