Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU RFB (vnc) driver

[Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>]

Brad Campbell wrote:
> Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> 
>> I'm working on adding RFB support for QEMU.  I've attached my
>> work-in-progress here.  You'll need to compile and link against
>> libvncserver to make it work- I'm not an autoconf wizard, so I just
>> hacked my local version for now.
>>
>> The whole thing works surprisingly well.  I managed to talk to QEMU on
>> my Linux box from my LAN-connected Windows box with amazing performance.
>>
>> It's a bit of a pain using the mouse over VNC since everything is done
>> using relative position packets.  It might be possible to emulate a
>> Synaptics PS/2 touchpad (which supports absolute positioning and is
>> supported under Windows and X) to make this a bit easier, but I'm not
>> certain how difficult that would be.  It might be easier to whip up a
>> special VNC client that supports mouse capturing.  :)

I vote for the Synaptics PS/2 touchpad emulation. From the Linux kernel 
source, it does not seem difficult.

Another topic is the keycode conversions. Even with SDL, a solution like 
bochs or rdesktop (with an option to give the host keyboard mapping) is 
needed. That's why I did not merge the various patch submitted to 
'improve' the SDL keyboard emulation.

Fabrice.