VNC working depends on command line options order

[Jarda Benkovsky]

OS: Ubuntu 10.04.2, amd64
Pkg version: 0.12.3+noroms-0ubuntu9.5

if -nographic option is specified before -vnc, vnc works, if vice-versa, it does not. I have been told (thanks, mjt), that -nographic is supposed to disable any graphic output, including vnc, so possibly it's a documentation bug:

- kvm man page talks about -nographic disabling SDL , not VNC. While it might be the same to you, it was not to me and my colleagues

- if -vnc and -nographic are conflicting, perhaps kvm should error out or at least warn

- monitor console's message on "change vnc 127.0.0.1:1" command: "Could not start server on 127.0.0.1:1" is not helpful either

- order of the options should not matter

Example: (VNC works)

/usr/bin/kvm -name ubuntu.example.com -m 3076 -smp 2 -drive if=virtio,file=/dev/vg0/kvm-ubuntu,boot=on,media=disk,cache=none,index=0 -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=00:03:03:03:03:01 -net tap,ifname=kvm_ubuntu,vlan=0,script=no,downscript=no -balloon virtio -nographic -daemonize -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -pidfile /var/run/kvm/1

Example: (VNC does not work, also confuses terminal):

/usr/bin/kvm -name ubuntu.example.com -m 3076 -smp 2 -drive if=virtio,file=/dev/vg0/kvm-ubuntu,boot=on,media=disk,cache=none,index=0 -net nic,vlan=0,model=virtio,macaddr=00:03:03:03:03:01 -net tap,ifname=kvm_ubuntu,vlan=0,script=no,downscript=no -balloon virtio -vnc 127.0.0.1:1 -nographic -daemonize -pidfile /var/run/kvm/1

[Thomas Huth (th-huth)]

QEMU 0.12 is pretty much outdated nowadays ... can you still reproduce this problem with the latest version of QEMU, or can we close this bug?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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