From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Host <-> guest interface port?
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 00:12:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4098154B.1050804@bellard.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c78flc$pbh$1@sea.gmane.org>
Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> Would it be possible to add a host/guest interface port, akin to how
> VMWare handles this? It's a convenient way to get/set various
> properties from the host while running the guest operating system. This
> also allows a smoother mouse interface - ie: auto capture/release of the
> mouse as it hits the screen boundaries, clipboard synchronization as
> well as synchronization of the guest's clock with the host's.
>
> Some more info on the VMWare port is here:
> http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/backdoor.html
Of course it is possible to add that, but first we must define the
features we want and implement the necessary support in the guest OSes,
which seems to be the most difficult AFAIK. Clipboard support would be
interesting. Does anyone know how to implement it for Linux and Windows
guests ?
Fabrice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-04 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-04 16:16 [Qemu-devel] Host <-> guest interface port? Matthew Mastracci
2004-05-04 22:12 ` Fabrice Bellard [this message]
2004-05-04 22:46 ` Michael L Torrie
2004-05-04 23:32 ` [Qemu-devel] " Matthew Mastracci
2004-05-05 18:31 ` Fabrice Bellard
2004-05-05 2:58 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jim C. Brown
2004-05-05 15:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Matthew Mastracci
2004-05-06 21:48 ` Jim C. Brown
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