From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BieE5-0003jb-GY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:06:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BieE3-0003jD-JP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:06:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BieE3-0003jA-Fi for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:06:31 -0400 Received: from [62.253.162.48] (helo=mta08-svc.ntlworld.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BieBn-0004OO-U9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:04:12 -0400 From: Julian Seward Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC for new features Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:05:22 +0100 References: <40ED8EF0.1040501@bellard.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200407082005.22220.jseward@acm.org> Reply-To: jseward@acm.org, 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 Cc: Emmanuel Charpentier > Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: > > 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). Good idea. Yes. > > - Support for more compressed and cow disk images formats so that > > filesystems without hole support can use cow disk images too. Well, maybe, but not critical. > I'm still at odds with some difficulties with the > current version (CVS from end June), that I want to solve before asking for > more ... I agree. Fabrice, it would be good to do a stable 0.5.6 release before moving on to this new stuff. It's been quite a while since 0.5.5 -- almost 2 months -- and I get the impression that quite a lot has improved in that time. J