Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU 0.7.2

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Karl Magdsick wrote:

>>(SDL is more-or-less considered obsolete in general, iiuc Fabrice wants the
>>windows port of qemu to use the Win32API natively to handle graphics, while
>>on *nix systems an X toolkit (such as Qt or GTK) is preferred.)
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>Out of curiosity, has GTK on Win32 been considered?
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Something I've been experimenting with recently is using XEmbed.  XEmbed 
allows you to have manage a widget in one process and display the widget 
in another process.  It's designed to be Toolkit agnostic so you can 
embed QT widgets within GTK and vice versa.

In the GTK world, instead of having qemu create a GtkWindow, it would 
create a GtkPlug.

Then another application (running as a separate process) can use a 
GtkSocket to embed the QEMU vga device within a larger GUI.

There can then be separate GTK/QT guis without QEMU having to support 
both widget sets.  What's more, it seems like the easiest way, given the 
way QEMU currently works, to have an advanced GUI that can manage 
multiple instances of QEMU (using tabs or something like that).

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>-Karl
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