Re: [PATCH 2/3] ui: Switch "-display sdl" to use the QAPI parser

[Thomas Huth]

On 17/05/2022 13.19, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On 5/17/22 10:34, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > > > This remains, and that's fine.  One step at time.
> > > Not sure how we want to proceed with that in the long run, though
> > > ... IIRC clearly, Paolo once said that it doesn't really belong into
> > > "-display" anyway and should be handled with the separate "-vnc"
> > > option instead?
> >
> > Not me, Gerd
> > (https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210825092023.81396-2-thuth@redhat.com/T/#e8c4f826cc8ff48b9afad37703e11704137f540c8):
> >
> > > Other way around, -display vnc should be dropped.  -display is about
> > > local displays, and there can be only one instance.  -vnc / -spice
> > > enable remote access, and this can be done in addition to a local
> > > display.
> > > not possible:
> > >   -display gtk + -display sdl
> > > possible:
> > >   -display gtk + -vnc
> > >   -display gtk + -vnc + -spice
> > >   -display none + -vnc + -spice
> >
> > For what it's worth, Libvirt uses both -vnc and -spice, so we might
> > very well proceed with Gerd's idea.  If we don't like -vnc and -spice
> > then it may be possible to QOMify them and go with -object.
>
> Are we ready to deprecate -display vnc?

If nobody disagrees, I'd say yes.

 Thomas