Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> Yes.  I was actually thinking of tunneling the curses data but 
>> another option would be a more proper character-based encoding.  The 
>> advantage of that is that you could also send over fonts.
>>
>
> curses is very un-vnc-like, it's a single stream an you need all of it 
> to get something meaningful.  Much more in the spirit of vnc is to 
> encode 'character tiles', and to allow coalesced updates like the 
> regular vnc protocol.

Yes, my main interest in curses was to avoid having to deal with 
character mapping.  I was planning on just using vte terminal to render 
the data.  Maybe doing a proper encoding is the right thing to do though.

> Ah, CGA as in color graphics adapter.  Why not add the encoding to vnc 
> and use the regular -vnc option?  if both viewer and server support 
> the feature, and if the display is in text mode, it would be used 
> automatically.

Yes, this is what I want.  I still want to be able to connect to it via 
telnet though independent of VNC.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori