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From: Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and Synergy?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:31:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43612B2A.5010106@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d7e2700f0510271108t29fd31c6p192f3dc8c41d077@mail.gmail.com>

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Thomas Steffen schrieb:
> On 10/22/05, Oliver Gerlich <olig9@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>is anyone here using Synergy (see synergy2.sf.net) to make the mouse go
>>smoothly from host to guest? At first glance, I'd say Synergy offers
>>much of the stuff that's necessary for easing the use of Qemu: it can
>>transport mouse and keyboard commands to another machine (to the Qemu
>>guest), and it offers clipboard sharing.
>>
>>At second glance, Synergy moves the mouse pointer only when it reaches a
>>screen border (for good interaction with Qemu, it should move the
>>pointer whenever the Qemu windows is clicked or something like that).
> 
> 
> That sounds very much like x2x or x2vnc to me. I have been using x2vnc
> for a while when I had a Linux and a Windows box on my desk, and it
> works beautifully. Is synergy much different?
> 
> Apart from that, I think on the X11 side x2vnc works very much like
> Qemu already does. Of course the vnc side could be interesting. And
> maybe synergy has the same functionality, but with less code.
> 
> The communication over TCP could easily be moved to a QEMU specific
> transport, I guess.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
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> 

Thanks for pointing out x2vnc and x2x. I didn't knew about them.
- From what I can see they have quite similar functionality as synergy,
only that synergy (if I understand correctly) works with Linux, Windows
and Mac, and the master computer doesn't necessarily have to run Linux
(correct me if I'm wrong).

Btw. according to the synergy developer there's a big refactoring
planned, which might add support for things like Qemu interaction (see
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1371199&forum_id=199579).
 Also see
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1372094&forum_id=199579
about changing the transport layer. Although such functionality not
absolutely necessary, it would certainly help :)

Regards,
Oliver
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      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-27 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-22 16:09 [Qemu-devel] Qemu and Synergy? Oliver Gerlich
2005-10-22 22:01 ` John R. Hogerhuis
2005-10-24 10:00   ` Oliver Gerlich
2005-10-27 18:08 ` Thomas Steffen
2005-10-27 19:31   ` Oliver Gerlich [this message]

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