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

[Markus Armbruster]

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?