Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC terminal server?

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Samuel Hunt wrote:
>
>   
>> It occurs to me that this program would make an excellent basis for a VNC
>> terminal server.
>>     
>
> Yeah, something like that has been done already: 
> http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/qemu/qemu-rfb13.patch.gz
>
> There is a notable update since rfb12 (which is a bit out of date 
> _cough_): Nis Jorgensen has sent a patch to support scroll mice.
>
> IMHO the biggest obstacle to inclusion in mainline QEmu is that the mouse 
> support is rather flakey: You have to disable mouse acceleration of the 
> guest OS.
>
> I had that cunning plan to write a virtual Wacom tablet, but I just don't 
> find the time.
>   

Someone posted a virtual Synaptic tablet on xen-devel recently (Xen uses 
qemu for VT support).  If someone wants to pick it up and submit it to 
qemu, that would solve this problem.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
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