On 2011-06-23 14:05, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:24:01PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2011-06-23 13:20, 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.
Maybe it could be something like that if the user specifies a splash
file - which indicates that there should be some splash delay as well.
Default without any splash parameter must remain 0, ie. disabled.
I don't think you want to change default timeouts based on whether
a splash screen is present. Consider that if you have enabled PXE boot
on one of the guest NICs, then there is already a few second delay
while the BIOS PXEs, during which it QEMU would be showing the splash
screen. You don't then want to add a further 2.5s or 5s delay ontop
of that already imposed by the BIOS PXE process. Just let the splash
screen be displayed for however long the BIOS process takes, without
any extra artifical delays, even if this is a mere fraction of a
second in some cases.
I don't want the splash to show up at all by default, even just for a
fraction of a second. Already loading that image costs time
(specifically as it's squeezed into fwcfg), and that would be unacceptable.
My point is that, if the user specifies "-boot
splash=my-nice-splace.bmp", there is likely the wish to see the result
more than a few 100 ms. Again, that's the case where the user asked for
a slowdown anyway.