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From: Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU RFB (vnc) driver
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Matthew Mastracci wrote:
> I'm working on adding RFB support for QEMU.  I've attached my
> work-in-progress here.  You'll need to compile and link against
> libvncserver to make it work- I'm not an autoconf wizard, so I just
> hacked my local version for now.
> 
> The whole thing works surprisingly well.  I managed to talk to QEMU on
> my Linux box from my LAN-connected Windows box with amazing performance.
> 
> It's a bit of a pain using the mouse over VNC since everything is done
> using relative position packets.  It might be possible to emulate a
> Synaptics PS/2 touchpad (which supports absolute positioning and is
> supported under Windows and X) to make this a bit easier, but I'm not
> certain how difficult that would be.  It might be easier to whip up a
> special VNC client that supports mouse capturing.  :)
> 

Just out of interest, the mouse behaves just as badly running qemu under an X vnc server session.

Oh, and did I mention, nice work!

Regards,
Brad