Jeroen Janssen wrote:
> > this might be done with minimal programming on the host-side.
>
> I assume the host-side "display" interface will be independant of the
> guest OS (at least that probably *should* be)?
As far as you are emulating hardware this should be true.
If we are using an specialized Guest-OS-Driver for the Display there
certainly will be much dependence between the Host-Side and the
Guest-Side. The Guest-OS-Driver needs some efficient way to bring the
data to the Host's screen.
This mechanism might be the same for several Guest-OS-Drivers.
I thik that it would not be efficient to emulate some Hardware for
this data-transmission.
> > Assuming an fast Ethernet-Emulation (or
> > IP-networking) it might be done without any host-side programming.
>
> why is that? do you want to send the display data over IP?
The X-Windows Protocoll is often used via TCP/IP-Sockets - quite
common for UNIX-machines.
> hmm... maybe we can make a list of host <-> guest interfaces interesting
> (and include them in the host-guest protocol documentation)
Here we certainly should collect some definitions.
Elmar
