[Qemu-devel] Re: -vga switch

[Sebastian Herbszt]

> I'm just throwing this out here to see if anyone else is interested in this 
> idea: There seems to be different arguments to set up a display adaptor for a 
> virtual machine.  Why not set it up so that you can have a central way of 
> doing it, such as a -vga argument.  For instance, -vga vmware would use the 
> vmware VGA adaptor, and -vga standard would use the standard VGA adaptor, and 
> so on.

You mean something like this?

--- vl.c.orig Mon Apr 14 19:20:56 2008
+++ vl.c Mon Apr 14 20:19:24 2008
@@ -7835,6 +7835,7 @@ enum {
    QEMU_OPTION_old_param,
    QEMU_OPTION_clock,
    QEMU_OPTION_startdate,
+    QEMU_OPTION_vga,
};

typedef struct QEMUOption {
@@ -7946,6 +7947,7 @@ const QEMUOption qemu_options[] = {
#endif
    { "clock", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_clock },
    { "startdate", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_startdate },
+    { "vga", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_vga },
    { NULL },
};

@@ -8793,6 +8795,21 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
                        }
                        rtc_date_offset = time(NULL) - rtc_start_date;
                    }
+                }
+                break;
+            case QEMU_OPTION_vga:
+                if (!strcmp(optarg, "cirrus")) {
+                    cirrus_vga_enabled = 1;
+                    vmsvga_enabled = 0;
+                } else if (!strcmp(optarg, "std")) {
+                    cirrus_vga_enabled = 0;
+                    vmsvga_enabled = 0;
+                } else if (!strcmp(optarg, "vmware")) {
+                    cirrus_vga_enabled = 0;
+                    vmsvga_enabled = 1;
+                } else {
+                    fprintf(stderr, "Supported vga cards: cirrus, std, 
vmware\n");
+                    exit(1);
                }
                break;
            }


- Sebastian