Re: graphical interface

[Nina Schoetterl-Glausch]

On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 07:25 -0600, Harold Grovesteen wrote:
> I tried putting -display gtk in the command line.  That does not work.
> No window, period.  I have been doing a lot of googling and I suspect
> that the Ubuntu package is _not_ configured with -enable-gtk.  I think
> the Ubuntu Qemu package is configured for use on a s390x host (hence no
> gtk), rather than an Intel host.
> 
> I have downloaded the source for 7.2.0 (as you suggested using) and
> plan to build it on my system with my own configuration.  
> 
> I am used to autotools builds.  My research indicates the Qemu uses
> meson(?) for its build support.  Usually the first thing I do is a
> configure --help.  Does the Qemu build tools have a facility like

Did you try running configure --help? Should work.

> "help" option?  I would like to see just what _can_ be configured even
> if I do not plan at the moment to use other options.
> 
> See below...
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Harold 
> 
> On Sat, 2022-12-10 at 13:56 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > On 09/12/2022 21.08, Harold Grovesteen wrote:
> > > I see qemu is capable of a graphical interface: -display gtk.  I am
> > > running Qemu on an Intel based Linux distro.
> > > 
> > > It does not seem to do anything different (certainly no graphical
> > > display) if I specify -display gtk.
> > 
> > With -display gtk, you should get a window with a menu. Click on
> > "View" then 
> > you can select "serial0" for the guest's console output and
> > "compatmonitor0" 
> > for the HMP monitor interface.
> 
> Good to know when I get the graphical interface to work.
> > 
> > If you want to have a real GUI in the guest, you have to configure a 
> > graphics card and input devices, i.e. "-device virtio-gpu-ccw -device
> > virtio-mouse-ccw -device virtio-keyboard-ccw" ... and your guest OS
> > has to 
> > support those, too. But please note that this is not very common on
> > s390x, 
> > you normally rather interact with the guest via the text console or
> > ssh.
> 
> Understand about the implications when running on a s390x host.  It is
> why I started with -nographic.  But because I am using a Linux host, a
> graphical interface should be possible.
> > 
> >   Thomas
> > 
> > 
> 
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