Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > I'm on the fence because while I like what I've posted, I'd like to 
> > eventually tunnel the curses data over VNC in which case, having a 
> > separate option makes sense.  -curses would imply that the GUI would 
> > be rendered with curses.
>
> I'm lost.  What does 'tunnel curses data over vnc' mean? A new 
> character cell based encoding (vs. pixel-based)?

Yes.  I was actually thinking of tunneling the curses data but another 
option would be a more proper character-based encoding.  The advantage 
of that is that you could also send over fonts.

> > So, 'qemu -curses' does what you think, 'qemu -cga 
> > telnet::1024,server -vnc :2' does what I want and still lets you 
> > interact with VNC, and then down the road 'qemu -cga vnc:org.qemu.vga 
> > -vnc :2' allows CGA tunneling over VNC.
>
> What's -cga?

That would be the second option which controlled what the CGA data was 
sent over.  stdio would be the default.  It doesn't have to be -cga.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori