I have been interested in a similar project for quite some time now.......
Plex86 is not quite yet up to the challenge due to its unfinished alpha
nature (Kev, how is that virtualizer coming, anyway...... and nice to hear
you back from a safe vacation). It is our aim to build a "VNC plugin" unit
to allow, among other things, what you plan to do. If you are interested in
contributing to this project along those lines (many of us know and greatly
appreciate your contributions to the LINUX kernel) we would be happy to
welcome you aboard. I hope this info is helpful to you........,
Drew Northup, N1XIM
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Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 3:56 PM
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Subject: Accessing Bochs/Plex86 over a network
I thought of the idea of running 3 or 4 emulators on a fast machine on
my network, then running VNC on each of those emulated OS's. This would
allow me to access which ever OS I wanted, when I wanted, and It
wouldn't bog down my main computer. After taking a deeper look at Bochs
and Plex86, I noticed that niether one has decent support for
virtualizing network cards, this would make it hard to run VNC inside
the emulated OS. Instead, I went about it a different way.
I looked over the source code for the other GUI's and started
what I call Bochs-RFB. This project is still in very early alpha
stages. Basic text output is shown, and discolored graphics. These
will both be worked on. Keyboard input is working, but mouse is not.
I have a small page up describing Bochs-RFB located at:
http://www.psyon.org/bochs-rfb/index.html
I would appreciate any suggestions or comments about the project.
Thank You
Donald Becker
P.S. For Those of you who don't know what VNC is... look at:
http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
