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vnc joins the party ;)
Also some s/head/seat/ to clarify.

Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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First you must compile qemu with a user interface supporting
multihead/multiseat and input event routing. Right now this
list includes sdl2 and gtk (both 2+3):
list includes sdl2, gtk (both 2+3) and vnc:

./configure --enable-sdl --with-sdlabi=2.0

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./configure --enable-gtk


Next put together the qemu command line:
Next put together the qemu command line (sdk/gtk):

qemu -enable-kvm -usb $memory $disk $whatever \
-display [ sdl | gtk ] \
-vga std \
-device usb-tablet

That is it for the first head, which will use the standard vga, the
That is it for the first seat, which will use the standard vga, the
standard ps/2 keyboard (implicitly there) and the usb-tablet. Now the
additional switches for the second head:
additional switches for the second seat:

-device pci-bridge,addr=12.0,chassis_nr=2,id=head.2 \
-device secondary-vga,bus=head.2,addr=02.0,id=video.2 \
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or use the "View / Detach tab" menu item to move one of the displays
to its own window so you can see both display devices side-by-side.

For vnc some additional configuration on the command line is needed.
We'll create two vnc server instances, and bind the second one to the
second seat, simliar to input devices:

-display vnc=:1,id=primary \
-display vnc=:2,id=secondary,display=video.2

Connecting to vnc display :1 gives you access to the first seat, and
likewise connecting to vnc display :2 shows the second seat.

Note on spice: Spice handles multihead just fine. But it can't do
multiseat. For tablet events the event source is sent to the spice
agent. But qemu can't figure it, so it can't do input routing.
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