From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6J2K-00012p-5b for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:52:28 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D6J29-0000yz-AG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:52:18 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D6J27-0000u9-B9 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:52:15 -0500 Received: from [128.8.10.164] (helo=po2.wam.umd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D6Iiu-0005ko-Uj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 20:32:25 -0500 Received: from jbrown.mylinuxbox.org (jma-box.student.umd.edu [129.2.237.180]) by po2.wam.umd.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j221WLNH001592 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:32:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 20:32:20 -0500 From: "Jim C. Brown" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Guest Tools Message-ID: <20050302013220.GA28323@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> References: <4912.1109718464@www32.gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4912.1109718464@www32.gmx.net> 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 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 > > -- > DSL Komplett von GMX +++ Superg?nstig und stressfrei einsteigen! > AKTION "Kein Einrichtungspreis" nutzen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl > 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.) -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.