Re: 3.0.3 without X

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Ewan Mellor wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:01:08PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> 
>> On 4/1/07 14:58, "ron minnich" <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> note that we're distributing an x11-free xen for plan 9 support, so I
>>> sure hope that x11 dependencies are not about to start appearing in
>>> xen.
>> The dependencies are only in HVM-specific bits of the tools/ directory.
>> Those are easily disabled, albeit with a smidgen of Makefile changes.
> 
> They also aren't really X11 dependencies.  That code includes
> <X11/keysymdef.h>, because VNC uses the same keysyms as X, but there's no
> dependency upon X client libraries.

This dependency is actually a bug that was introduced in the Xen tree 
(it isn't present in qemu CVS).

The VNC spec makes it pretty clear that you cannot rely on the symbolic 
names of X keycodes to develop a portable VNC client.  Apparently they 
change slightly across different X implementations.

When I wrote the original VNC code for QEMU, I was careful not to rely 
on include files because of this.  We should really remove this 
dependency and hard code the keycodes ourself.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori


> Ewan.