[Spice-devel] nographic option

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 15:06 -0400, Marian Krcmarik wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>
> > To: spice-devel at freedesktop.org
> > Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:14:19 PM
> > Subject: [Spice-devel] nographic option
> > Hello, all. I was a little surprised to see in
> > http://spice-space.org/page/Running 
> Most likely it's not the best example cli.
> 
> >that qemu is invoked with the
> > -nographic option. Later documents do not have that in their examples.
> > Is there any advantage to invoking it? Thanks - John
> 
> Take a look at man qemu:) I believe it's described well:
> 
> Normally, QEMU uses SDL to display the VGA output. With this option, you can totally disable graphical output so that QEMU is a simple command line application. The emulated serial port is redirected on the console. Therefore, you can still use QEMU to debug a Linux kernel with a serial console.
<snip>
<grin> This time I did read it :) That's why I was surprised to see the
recommendation to include it in the SPICE documentation I referenced.
Doesn't spice normally replace sdl? If I am using spice as my graphics
display, why would I include -nographic? Thanks - John