[Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu-gui based on wxWidgets and libvncclient

["Marc André Tanner" <mat@brain-dump.org>]

Hi,

During the last few weeks i was playing around with the idea to
implement a GUI for qemu and so this is what i came up with.

Since i am still pretty new to C/C++ development (in fact i would call
this my first real world C++ application) and not familiar with qemu
internals i decided to implement the GUI independent of qemu itself. So
from a technically point of view i just call qemu with arguments to
redirect the monitor to stdio and to export the display to vnc (-monitor
stdio -vnc display). I then try to capture and embed the vnc display
within the GUI that's where libvncclient[1] comes in.

It's this last step which doesn't yet work as expected. It is extremely
slow and/or crashes after some time. But since i am not that experienced
in both multi threaded gui and wxWidgets programming i am stuck.

So i hope someone from the list can help me here, the two most important
files for this issue are vncpanel.cpp and vncdisplaythread.cpp.

My current development snapshot can be found at 
    http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/qemu-gui/doku.php/download
but don't expect it to actually work it's still buggy and in pre alpha
state.

Any comments, ideas, patches and so on are highly appreciated.

At this point i would like to thank Johannes Schindelin for his help
with the integration of libvncclient.

Thanks,

Marc

[1] http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/