From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVDTi-0004nI-I6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:31:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EVDTg-0004mz-Ug for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:31:58 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EVDTg-0004mv-JE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:31:56 -0400 Received: from [213.165.64.20] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EVDTg-0007mQ-FY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:31:56 -0400 Message-ID: <43612B2A.5010106@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:31:54 +0200 From: Oliver Gerlich MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu and Synergy? References: <435A641F.6090604@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Steffen schrieb: > On 10/22/05, Oliver Gerlich 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel > > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDYSspTFOM6DcNJ6cRArD2AKCzRBdSC35PVgHO5ZrdHhyvLRm0OwCfT2NQ gg/U2UDzM1n8HXpyOIIXfiE= =pVww -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----