Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Reveal 'to' parameter of 'vnc' option to user

[Robert Hu]

On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 14:59 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> On 31/05/2016 09:03, Robert Ho wrote:
> > I find that '-vnc' option actually has a parameter 'to', implicitly;
> > while actually is there and can be used but not be public.
> > Don't know why but this may probably confuse user, especially when used in
> > some default situation implicitly. 
> > 
> > So shall I?
> > 1.  Add its description in QEMU manual info
> > 2.  Expilicitly print out when it's used with non-default value
> 
> I think patch 1 is okay.

Thanks Paolo. Sorry for late reply, since I just part-time work on this.

> 
> For patch 2, I am not sure I see the point of printing the VNC options;
> the VNC port is printed immediately after.

I agree it is not significantly meaningful to print out the options. I
just disliked the implicitly be-on-behalf-chose a value without
notification; especially we don't know there is a 'to' option. So when I
did the density test of huge quantity of guests, always failed on 99th,
made me quizzical. :(
In most ordinary cases, the final 'VNC server running on ...' printf is
sufficient.
Now my that emotion gradually die out, I agree abandon patch 2. :)

> 
> However, I think it is useful to print the VNC port whenever the user
> specifies "-vnc to=XX".  Perhaps you could move show_vnc_port (the
> variable, the assignments and the "if (show_vnc_port)") from vl.c to
> vnc_display_open?

And 2nd reason I abandon patch 2: I grepped in vnc.c, no bare 'printf'.
Any nice wrapper for such info purpose? I don't want to be first 'bad
guy' to break the elegant code. ;)

So do I need to send out v2 patch? which simply contains single patch 1.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paolo