Re: [Qemu-devel] Patch for SCSI externals
On Tuesday 17 October 2006 19:42, Chuck Brazie wrote:
Here is a path to enable the SCSI disk support in QEMU.
Let me know your thoughts, etc. This is my first time at some open source
updates...
I think it would be better to unify the ide and scsi options. I suggest
something like the -net options:
-disk [file=]finename,[type={disk,cdrom}][,id={ide,scsi}[N]]
[,format={raw,qcow,...}]
With the existing options being aliases, eg.
-hda fat:foo = -disk file=foo,type-disk,id=ide0,type=vfat
-cdrom bar = -disk bar,type=cdrom,id=ide2
Then make the device emulation lookup devices by id.
Either that or just implement config file support.
Paul
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] qemu-gui based on wxWidgets and libvncclient
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 22:56 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: Marc André Tanner wrote: Hi, During the last few weeks i was playing around with the idea to implement a GUI for qemu and so this is what i came up with. Cool. You should checkout virt-manager. It has much the same mission as what you describe. Ok, i will check it out, what is the state of the libvirt backend for qemu? Since i am still pretty new to C/C++ development (in fact i would call this my first real world C++ application) and not familiar with qemu internals i decided to implement the GUI independent of qemu itself. So from a technically point of view i just call qemu with arguments to redirect the monitor to stdio and to export the display to vnc (-monitor stdio -vnc display). I then try to capture and embed the vnc display within the GUI that's where libvncclient[1] comes in. I have no experience with libvncclient. I think the general idea of using VNC to create an external QEMU GUI is a good one. Yep, although the performance will obviously be a bit slower. Previously, I had posted some patches for a shmem GUI that used a custom control channel. After hacking on that for a little bit based on some feedback, I've come full circle and am now under the view that extending VNC is a better long term approach. So, I've reserved some pseudo-encodings and a client message type and am now working on some VNC extensions to enable better QEMU integration. My current client code is available at: http://hg.codemonkey.ws/vnc-gui/ The VNC extensions are still a work in progress but documentation is here: http://tocm.wikidot.com/vncextensions Regards, Anthony Liguori If i find some time, i will take a look at it. Anyway if someone has comments about my libvncclient based code, please share them. Regards, Marc ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] qemu-gui based on wxWidgets and libvncclient
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 11:10:00PM +0200, Marc Andr? Tanner wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 22:56 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: Marc André Tanner wrote: Hi, During the last few weeks i was playing around with the idea to implement a GUI for qemu and so this is what i came up with. Cool. You should checkout virt-manager. It has much the same mission as what you describe. Ok, i will check it out, what is the state of the libvirt backend for qemu? I did an initial prototype patch to validate the design / approach. This now needs to be cleaned up to a state suitable for inclusion in libvirt CVS repo. My goal is to get QEMU support in an official libvirt release within the next 3-6 months, so that I can make it into Fedora Core 7. There'll be a little incremental work to virt-manager once the libvirt QEMU bits are done, but I don't expect that to cover anything difficult - just tweaking the install wizard to enable the options that are relevant for QEMU VMs. Regards, Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
[Qemu-devel] Microsoft VHD support?
I just learned that the Microsoft VHD format is open (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserversystem/virtualserver/techinfo/vhdspec.mspx). Are there any plans on adding support for this? Rene -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (UW-Oshkosh email address), http://rhorn.unixcab.org - a bunch of experimental stuff SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org Jay Leno in response to Colin Powell's deadline for an Iraqi constitution: They can take ours. After all, we aren't using it... ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
