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

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 21.10.2009 20:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> 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.

Having two different consoles at the same time is easy. Guest graphics
in the SDL window, serial console on stdio. And now I need to add a
monitor. Means that I need to start using named pipes or TCP connections
or something. And I need to arrange the windows so that I can see qemu's
SDL window and the shell with my netcat (or whatever) gets the enter key
I hit. Yes, it's possible, but it's not nice.

I like Jamie's suggestion for macros.

Kevin