From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42066) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjmIj-0003ZC-1I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:41:26 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjmId-0000yo-32 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:41:20 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23157) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjmIc-0000ye-R8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 03:41:15 -0500 Message-ID: <1385109669.3681.32.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:41:09 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1384848690.16718.139.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> <1384935158.2005.34.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> <528CC80B.7080601@spineless.org> <1384960445.2005.124.camel@nilsson.home.kraxel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] console muti-head some more design input List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Dave Airlie Cc: John Baboval , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" Hi, > > While thinking about this: A completely different approach to tackle > > this would be to implement touchscreen emulation. So we don't have a > > single usb-tablet, but multiple (one per display) touch input devices. > > Then we can simply route absolute input events from this display as-is > > to that touch device and be done with it. No need to deal with > > coordinate transformations in qemu, the guest will deal with it. > > This is a nice dream, except you'll find the guest won't deal with it > very well, and you'll have all kinds of guest scenarios to link up > that touchscreen a talks to monitor a etc. Ok, scratch the idea then. I don't have personal experience with this, no touch capable displays here. cheers, Gerd