Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Guest Tools

["Jim C. Brown" <jma5@umd.edu>]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 12:07:44AM +0100, olig9@gmx.de wrote:
> Hello,
> to enable copying of text between Qemu host and guest, I've started to write
> some small apps called QGT (Qemu Guest Tools). A very early version is
> available at http://www.oliver-gerlich.de/qemu/ . Please have a look at it
> and tell me your opinion.
> 
> Oliver Gerlich
> 
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This is promising, but I think it is badly named. This looks likes that it could,
in theory, work across actual networks. There is another program which can be
used to share clipboards across networks, and it can be used from within qemu.
It can support multple workstations at once and it supports more OSes.

Looks good for a first version though. What other features are you planning
to add?

The project shouldn't be called Qemu Guest Tools unless it requires qemu, IMHO.
(Guest tools have been discussed before, some ideas for communication to qemu
itself would be via 'special' qemu specific instructions or alloting an io port
to give commands to qemu (this is what VMware does). Some ideas that have been
proposed to use this communication for: host-guest clipboard, accelerated
graphics support (such as 3d), a sort of two-way user-net (allow the host and
other workstations to see the guest w/o going thru tuntap ... not sure how
this would work). The list can get quite fancy.)

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