From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Jbl-0007cy-H7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:53:05 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Jbi-0007ch-R5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:53:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0Jbi-0007ce-NQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:53:02 -0400 Received: from [213.165.64.21] (helo=mail.gmx.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0Jd3-000866-6D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:54:25 -0400 Message-ID: <44B3BB46.8030004@gmx.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:52:54 +0200 From: Oliver Gerlich MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI References: <44AC2667.8030008@gentoo.org> <44B356D7.9040704@sjsoft.com> <200607110740.25142.jasong@ccgr.org> <44B3A4D0.2040601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44B3A4D0.2040601@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Linas Žvirblis wrote: > Jason Gress wrote: > > >>I know this is a lot different than the discussion so far, but has anyone >>considered keeping SDL and using an SDL GUI similar to ZSNES? > > > I did not check the source code, but it looks just like any other > self-made bitmap-based SDL menu I have seen. It is like inventing yet > another GUI toolkit. > > I am new around here, so I am a bit confused. What is this GUI all > about? Is it about (a) replacing SDL with something else for drawing the > contents of the window, or (b) providing GUI for configuring virtual > machine options, just like numerous front-ends already do? > > I assume this is (a), as it is beyond me why would anyone want to do > (b), when there already are front-ends for Windows, KDE, GTK+, Java, > MacOS, etc. > Personally, I'd be interested to have a GUI for controlling a running Qemu instance: change CD-ROM, add/remove USB devices, save/restore VM snapshots (though this would also require to save/restore disk snapshots), and eg. provide buttons to switch between guest Virtual Terminals. Furthermore, I'd like to get information like guest CPU usage and guest hard disk access; this would probably require that the GUI is integrated into Qemu. Whether actual graphics output is done via SDL or GTK or something else is probably not that important. Configuration could still be done with the current command line flags, but if one of the many config GUIs could be integrated into Qemu, that might be useful as well. Regards, Oliver