-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Daniel P. Berrange schrieb: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:52:14PM -0500, John Morris wrote: > >>On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 17:29, Oliver Gerlich wrote: >> >> >>>If you are familiar with Tcl/Tk, maybe you could give some hints on how >>>to embed the Qemu window into such an app? >> >>Embedding the emulator's window might not be the best way to attack the >>problem. Especially since you would need to be able to detach it to be >>able to go full screen. I have pondered the Tk frontend idea before so >>lemme dump my random thoughts on the subject and see how many holes get >>punched in em. > > > With the new VNC server capability there is no need to embed the emulator's > existing window. You can just have a GTK/QT widget which acts as a VNC client > taking the video feed & displaying directly within the GUI management app. > Similarly you can redirect the QEMU monitor console to a UNIX pipe when > lauching QEMU, so the management app can fully control the QEMU engine > to do suspend/resume, snapshots, media changesi. > > I wrote an GUI app in Python which did the latter already: > > http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/olpc-qemu-admin-demo.html > > At the time I wrote it there wasn't any VNC support in QEMU, so I couldn't > hook up the display, but with the 0.8.1 release it wouldn't be much effort > to embed the display directly in the app via VNC. So I don't think there > are any changes required in QEMU itself to be able to create a fully > featured QEMU frontend easily on a par with VMWare Desktop, if not better. > > Regards. > Dan.
VNC is a good idea... But isn't it a bit "laggy" for this purpose? I think people accept a laggy mouse cursor in a VNC window that comes over the network, but won't really accept that in virtual machine that's running directly on their desktop. OTOH, I'm no VNC expert :) and maybe there are tricks to speed this up?! Regards, Oliver -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEke5ATFOM6DcNJ6cRAoRrAKCh1pM+Ig5WTv4ZeoGSvkjtT7M/mACeM1XL iH7ztKK9+HwNsnO5EA0XqBA= =gGkF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel