From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bie6n-0001g5-Kx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:59:01 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Bie6k-0001ep-UB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:59:00 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Bie6k-0001el-R3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:58:58 -0400 Received: from [62.253.162.44] (helo=mta04-svc.ntlworld.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Bie4b-0003Hf-Rw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:56:46 -0400 Received: from [10.10.10.100] ([81.107.87.144]) by mta04-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with ESMTP id <20040708185339.UGDI24958.mta04-svc.ntlworld.com@[10.10.10.100]> for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2004 19:53:39 +0100 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features From: Antony T Curtis In-Reply-To: <40ED8EF0.1040501@bellard.org> References: <40ED8EF0.1040501@bellard.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1089312886.59382.90.camel@pcgem.rdg.cyberkinetica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 19:54:46 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 19:14, Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Hi, > > As porting the SDL version to other OSes than Linux seems to become an > important issue, I plan to add the following features in the next days: > > - Virtual console handled by SDL (Ctrl-Shift-F1 to get the guest screen, > Ctrl-Shift-F2 to get the monitor shell, and maybe Ctrl-Shift-F3 for > various logs). sounds nice ... but there are a number of benefits with having the monitor shell as is... > - Support for more compressed and cow disk images formats so that > filesystems without hole support can use cow disk images too. > > - New tool to create disk images, to compress them and to convert > between any disk image formats. These sounds great > - Config file support (syntax: qemu mypc.qmu) It would be a nice feature if the hw devices can be dynamically loaded and 'installed' as per the config file. > Comments ? > > Fabrice. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > FLAGS (\Seen)) -- Antony T Curtis