Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] new SDL keyboard shortcuts to start and stop VM

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Glauber Costa wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
>   
>> Glauber Costa wrote:
>>     
>>> Why don't we provide a mechanism to make a macro out of a sequence of
>>> monitor commands, and let the user assign whatever he wants out of that?
>>>
>>>       
>> Really?  This seems exceedingly complicated to me.
>>
>> Redirecting the kernel output to serial and logging is a considerably better
>> solution.
>>     
> To his specific problem, yes.
>
> But this probably don't work so well on some OSes that are less serial friendly.
> Also, there are valid use cases in which one may want, for example, to pause
> fast if some graphical event happens, which is an extension of what he mentioned
> initially.
>   

Then type "stop" in the monitor and hit enter when you need to.  Or, 
write a simple VNC client using gtk-vnc that can have any sort of crazy 
key sequences you want.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori