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Document the GTK (libvte), D-Bus and spice-app cases.\n\nSigned-off-by: Marc-André Lureau \n---\n qemu-options.hx | 13 +++++++++++--\n 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)","diff":"diff --git a/qemu-options.hx b/qemu-options.hx\nindex e780bc2ac06..efffeaaf55e 100644\n--- a/qemu-options.hx\n+++ b/qemu-options.hx\n@@ -4277,8 +4277,17 @@ The available backends are:\n and hub devices is not supported as well.\n \n ``-chardev vc,id=id[[,width=width][,height=height]][[,cols=cols][,rows=rows]]``\n- Connect to a QEMU text console. ``vc`` may optionally be given a\n- specific size.\n+ Connect to a QEMU text console. The implementation and supported feature\n+ set depend on the selected display backend.\n+\n+ - The GTK backend uses libvte for the emulation and display (when available).\n+\n+ - The D-Bus backend exports the character device as a Chardev object.\n+\n+ - spice-app backend exports it as a Spice port.\n+\n+ In other cases, QEMU uses its own emulated VT100, and ``vc`` may optionally be\n+ given a specific size.\n \n ``width`` and ``height`` specify the width and height respectively\n of the console, in pixels.\n","prefixes":["v3","01/26"]}