[Qemu-devel] Re: [6322] add a -vga none cli option (Stefano Stabellini)

[Sebastian Herbszt]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Revision: 6322
>          http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=6322
> Author:   aliguori
> Date:     2009-01-15 20:37:28 +0000 (Thu, 15 Jan 2009)
>
> Log Message:
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> add a -vga none cli option (Stefano Stabellini)
>
> currently there is no way to fully disable any graphic card device for
> the PC architecture.
> You can have no graphical output, thanks to -nographic, but you would
> have the VGA device connected to your PCI bus anyway.
> There is already a convenient -vga option to choose between std, cirrus
> and vmware; this patch add the new option "none" to select no graphic
> card at all.

I just tried this with r6367 on WinXP and SDL support as

qemu.exe -L . -hda dummy.img -vga none

and it made qemu crash. This happens on the call to
"sdl_display_init(ds, full_screen, no_frame);" in vl.c.

Maybe "-vga none" should imply "-nographic" ?

- Sebastian