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

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 03:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> Your answer may be, this is for a developer and they'll be aware of 
>> all the short comings/gotchas but this ends up being a rather 
>> user-hostile interface.  People are never as aware of short 
>> comings/gotchas as we'd like them to be.  If there was no other way 
>> for a developer to do this, I'd be more inclined to find a way to 
>> support this but it's just a matter of writing a script or if you 
>> really need a short cut, you can do it with standard gnome short cuts 
>> or write a very simple vnc client based on gvncviewer (we're talking 
>> a dozen lines of added code) to do this for you.
>>
>
> vncviewer based displays may work now, but they are inefficient and 
> will likely fall apart if/when we have 3D support.

If it's chromium based (which I suspect it will be), you could certainly 
tunnel it via vnc.

> I'd much rather see a real GUI client, perhaps implemented by 
> scripting QObjects or QMP.

I'm with you 100% here.  I'd rather see our focus put into a proper gui 
based on QMP than to tack on features to SDL.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori