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authorJes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>2011-03-16 13:33:32 +0100
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2011-03-22 08:39:11 -0500
commit4171d32e6eea47bf2cd160ace0ec3639e10b3aa9 (patch)
treee5d1fffd99b821e354f3224fa046480a0244f540 /qemu-options.hx
parent1472a95bab1e7dc4d6cab83dc3853574cb829211 (diff)
Introduce -display none
New option -display none. This option differs from -nographic by not trying to take control of stdio etc. but instead behaves as if a graphics display is enabled, except that it doesn't show one. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'qemu-options.hx')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx
index a3191e6c3..08a99b5ef 100644
--- a/qemu-options.hx
+++ b/qemu-options.hx
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ ETEXI
DEF("display", HAS_ARG, QEMU_OPTION_display,
"-display sdl[,frame=on|off][,alt_grab=on|off][,ctrl_grab=on|off]\n"
- " [,window_close=on|off]|curses\n"
+ " [,window_close=on|off]|curses|none\n"
" select display type\n", QEMU_ARCH_ALL)
STEXI
@item -display @var{type}
@@ -609,6 +609,12 @@ support a text mode, QEMU can display this output using a
curses/ncurses interface. Nothing is displayed when the graphics
device is in graphical mode or if the graphics device does not support
a text mode. Generally only the VGA device models support text mode.
+@item none
+Do not display video output. The guest will still see an emulated
+graphics card, but its output will not be displayed to the QEMU
+user. This option differs from the -nographic option in that it
+only affects what is done with video output; -nographic also changes
+the destination of the serial and parallel port data.
@end table
ETEXI