Re: [Qemu-devel] [Spice-devel] [RFC v4 4/9] qxl: screen_dump in vga: do a single ppm_save

[Alon Levy]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 03:37:46PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 02/22/12 15:25, Alon Levy wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 02:58:10PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >>> And the only user of screen_dump_filename is:
> >>>
> >>> static void vga_save_dpy_update(DisplayState *ds,
> >>>                                 int x, int y, int w, int h)
> >>> {
> >>>     if (screen_dump_filename) {
> >>>         ppm_save(screen_dump_filename, ds->surface);
> >>
> >> upstream/master this here:
> >>
> >>           screen_dump_filename = NULL;
> >>
> > 
> > That's wrong, you'll get the screenshot after the first update, who's to
> > say it is fully rendered?
> 
> vga code actually does a single, fullscreen update after
> vga_invalidate_display(), so it should work fine.

ok, so I'll just use your one liner and see.

> 
> >> The corner case where this fails is when console switching is needed,
> >> i.e. switch to monitor console via ctrl-alt-2, then type the screenshot
> >> command there ...
> > 
> > Are you talking about sdl console or linux guest console? ctrl-alt-2 or
> > ctrl-alt-F2? I can try both.
> 
> ctrl-alt-2 sdl console.
> 
> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
>