Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC terminal server?

[Mark Williamson <mark.williamson@cl.cam.ac.uk>]

> On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Samuel Hunt wrote:
> > It occurs to me that this program would make an excellent basis for a VNC
> > terminal server.
>
> Yeah, something like that has been done already:
> http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/qemu/qemu-rfb13.patch.gz
>
> There is a notable update since rfb12 (which is a bit out of date
> _cough_): Nis Jorgensen has sent a patch to support scroll mice.
>
> IMHO the biggest obstacle to inclusion in mainline QEmu is that the mouse
> support is rather flakey: You have to disable mouse acceleration of the
> guest OS.
>
> I had that cunning plan to write a virtual Wacom tablet, but I just don't
> find the time.

The Xen copy of pckbd.c includes a patch to emulate a Summagraphics tablet, in 
order to fix this problem.  This is probably reusable for QEmu itself.

Cheers,
Mark

-- 
Dave: Just a question. What use is a unicyle with no seat?  And no pedals!
Mark: To answer a question with a question: What use is a skateboard?
Dave: Skateboards have wheels.
Mark: My wheel has a wheel!