Re: How to replace show-cursor?

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 06:10, John Siu <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I am running qemu on macos host, with Ubuntu desktop as client, Following is 
> my command line:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64 \
> -no-user-config \
> -nodefaults \
> -name u64d01 \
> -show-cursor \
> -M q35,accel=hvf,usb=off,vmport=off \
> -m 8192M \
> -smp 4 \
> -rtc base=utc,clock=host \
> -device virtio-blk-pci,drive=ssd1 \
> -drive id=ssd1,file=/Users/js/code/vm/qemu/u64d01.qcow2,if=none,format=qcow2 \
> -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=nic1,mac=52:54:98:76:54:33 \
> -netdev user,id=nic1,ipv4=on,ipv6=on,hostname=u64d01,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22 \
> -device virtio-tablet-pci \
> -device virtio-vga \
> -device ich9-intel-hda,id=snd,msi=on \
> -device hda-output,id=snd-codec0,bus=snd.0,cad=0,audiodev=snd0 \
> -audiodev coreaudio,id=snd0
>
> Ubuntu start up. But with following message in host terminal:
>
> qemu-system-x86_64: -show-cursor: warning: The -show-cursor option is 
> deprecated, use -display {sdl,gtk},show-cursor=on instead
>
> As I am not using "-display" option, how should I replace "-show-cursor" ?

Gerd, this is one of your changes -- could you clarify what the required option
change is, please? (Ideally when we add this kind of deprecation warning
it would be clearer about exactly what the required new option is. In this
case clearly neither 'sdl' nor 'gtk' is relevant and the message didn't account
for users relying on the default display settings...)

thanks
-- PMM