Sounds good, I'll give it a look.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf
Of Psyon
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: plex86 video proposal
I am actually working on a GUI stub that uses the RFB protocol from VNC.
The
basics work right now, but Im still working on getting the mouse events
handled
just right. Also, as of right now it is a little slow. I figured this
would be
better than actually running VNC inside the guest OS for three reasons.
One, no
outside network access needed for the guest OS. Two, the server would
proably
run a little slower within the guest OS. Three, the server does not have to
be
the specific for the guest os, so you could be running Windows and use
loadlin
and switch to linux without worrying about losing the connection. Again, I
am
still working hard on the project. It was originally meant for Bochs, but
from
what I can tell, Plex86 uses the same GUI stubs.
http://www.psyon.org/bochs-rfb/index.html
And for those of you that have seen the page before, no it hasnt been
updated in
a while. I havent had any real big milestones worth posting on it yet.
--Don Becker
Nelson Rush wrote:
> Uh oh, I just thought of something.
>
> VNC would only be useful once the guest operating system has booted.
>
> In *nix this won't be a problem because X Windows is loaded after the boot
> process.
>
> In Windows this will be a problem because it goes into graphics mode when
it
> is loading. I also don't think we could get VNC to load before the login
> either.
>
> So this means there will have to be a minimal amount of virutalized video
> support in Plex86 to get us past login for Windows.
>
> Here is another idea though...
>
> We could fake the display. That is, we grab the logow.sys file off the
> Windows partition, display it on the host and do the little palette
rotation
> loading sequence. This would require that the user has told us the guest
is
> Windows. When it hits the login screen I think we're screwed.
>
> This is a tough one, I don't know.
