[Spice-devel] nographic option

[Marian Krcmarik]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan at opensourcedevel.com>
> To: "Marian Krcmarik" <mkrcmari at redhat.com>
> Cc: spice-devel at freedesktop.org
> Sent: Monday, June 20, 2011 10:03:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] nographic option
> 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

Yes, you are right, this option was deleted from the example command line, Thanks:)