Chris Emerson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Julian Hall wrote:
>
> > One feature that I (and I suspect others) would find extremely useful would
> > be to allow the GUI to detach and attach to running processes. This would
> > be acheived, I guess, by using some kind of GUI server module, as a
> > replacement to the standard X11 ui module.
> [snip]
> > This would be (very) useful for setting up virtual server systems...
> >
> > Any comments/ideas?
>
> One of the things which annoyed me about VMWare was that you had to
> launch it from X. If we have a way of running a VM without any GUI,
> then it would probably be useful to connect to it later and see what
> the console looks like.
>
> I think that a lot of the functionality you're asking for could be
> implemented already using VNC, but it's still probably useful. I
> wouldn't think that it's too much work hacking the GUI plugin (in
> whatever form it may end up in) to support detaching/re-attaching.
>
> Personally, I'd be more interested in a text-only (still VGA?)
> interface.
This is a really cool idea. Something to keep in mind as we
achitect FreeMWare. We'll need to keep the video updates optimal
if we want them to fly across the 'net.
I'm wondering how long before someone suggests allowing a simple
GUI client which will allow multiple people to attach to the VM
in a read-only fashion (video only), plus one with read-write
(video + keyboard). Thus someone could be editing a document
on a VM server, and other people in a group could be monitoring
the changes interactively.
-Kevin
