Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/10] display: add -display app launching external application

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > > > Everything needed, so launching remote-viewer is
> > > > just "remote-viewer /path/to/config.vv".
> > >
> > > If it's just what is needed to launch the viewer, why not stick to the
> > > url syntax?
> >
> > First, the info needed to launch is located on a fixed & well known
> > place on disk then, so it is easy to restart remote-viewer.
> 
> It would also be a fixed URI, if we use the spice+unix:// syntax.

Ah, good.  Fine with me then.

> > I think it is more useful to extend that instead of passing through
> > options from the qemu command line to virt-viewer.
> 
> Hmm, although it limits what you can easily configure per instance as well..

We might decide on a case-by-vase basis, which make sense as
per-instance and which not.  For example: Hotkeys is more a user
preference and I don't think we need them be configurable per-vm.
For fullscreen it is probably more useful to have that as vm-specific
option.

cheers,
  Gerd