Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Allow to specify a display device ID and head whith the screendump command

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Gerd Hoffmann (address@hidden) wrote:
> > > +    qmp_screendump(filename, id != NULL, id, id != NULL, head, &err);
> > >      hmp_handle_error(mon, &err);
> > >  }
> > 
> > Looks ok from HMP; one question, is there a way to give an ID to the
> > default VGA or only to extra devices?
> 
> It'll be whatever id you give to your video device.  For libvirt this is
> "video$nr".  When starting qemu from the command line just use
> "-device VGA,id=$yourchoice".

Ah OK, that works, what I'd tried was
     -device qxl,id=foo      rather than
     -device qxl-vga,id=foo  which works.

Dave

> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
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