Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player

["Christian MICHON" <christian.michon@gmail.com>]

you're putting c++ inside the qemu source tree when it is not
needed (yet).

if SDL is common to most guest screens: I agree with you
that the gui/toolkit should overlay the SDL.

Yet Fabrice mentionned months ago this was not his
intention, so we should respect it and (hopefully) close
this long thread.

On 6/16/06, Kevin F. Quinn <ml@kevquinn.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:45:24 +0100
> Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:21:46AM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> >
> > > WxWidgets (www.wxwidgets.org) provides a nice way out of this -
> > > provides a uniform API for the application developer, and local
> > > look-and-feel for each platform.  WxWidgets can sit on gtk, motif,
> > > x11, win32, mac, cocoa (doesn't appear to be a qt backend yet, but
> > > no reason there couldn't be).
> >
> > Yes, there should be abstraction between the UI and the VM, but I
> > think that the approach taken by xine, gstreamer, cdrecord,
> > cdparanoia, etc. is much cleaner.  You could still write a frontend
> > with WxWidgets...
> >
> > I think it would be best if QEMU didn't depend on any particular
> > toolkit, and that includes WxWidgets.
>
> I was suggesting WxWidgets as a way to avoid writing separate gui
> frontends for each platform (that's what WxWidgets is for). I wasn't
> suggesting WxWidgets be embedded into Qemu (or the other way around for
> that matter).  If you want a pretty controller app and you want to
> avoid cross-platform issues WxWidgets does a lot of the work for you
> (much more than just gtk for example).  In particular I was responding
> to the statement
>
> > Face it, putting a GUI on something like QEMU is going to require at
> > least a one per desktop/platform effort.
>
> I don't see any reason to hack up qemu just to put a pretty face on
> it.  VNC support already provides an easy way to place the guest screen
> wherever you want if you don't like the SDL window (although I think
> SDL remains the best choice for the guest screen).
> http://code.technoplaza.net/wx-sdl/ talks about combining WxWidgets and
> SDL, although I don't know if that's useful.
>
> --
> Kevin F. Quinn
>
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-- 
Christian