Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] kvm:showing a splash picture when start

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:20:06PM +0800, Wayne Xia wrote:
> 2011-6-23 18:03, Jan Kiszka
> > On 2011-06-23 11:18, Wayne Xia wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>      these 3 patch simply enable qemu-kvm to show a logo picture when it
> > 
> > You are posting on qemu-devel (which is correct for this topic), so your
> > patches must target that tree. Patch 1 eg. does not and needs rebasing.
> > 
> thanks for the tip.
> >> s start up, following is how to configurate it:
> >>      invoke it with params:
> >>      -boot (splash_time=<N>,) (splash_filename=<N>,)
> > 
> > Simply 'splash' for specifying the file should suffice.
> > 
> >>      the splash_time is in the unit of ms, and its max value is 65535.
> >> this feature is by default on with 5000ms showing up.
> > 
> > Strong NAK for making this default. We have a nice sub-second BIOS time
> > in QEMU, and that must not be destroyed by eye candy. 5 s is also way
> > too long even when you want splash.
> > 
> Maybe 5 is a bit too long, this patch is for test so made it a bit
> longer to be observed by VNC, I think 2.5s would be fit.

A splash screen provides no useful information to the end user,
so they won't care about seeing it in VNC or anyother display
protocol. All that matters is to get users to their working OS
as fast as possible. So 0s, aka no splash screen, should be the
default.

Daniel
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