From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXNV7-0007x8-As for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:19:41 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JXNV2-0007tL-Do for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:19:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JXNV2-0007tI-Ay for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:19:36 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.156]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JXNV2-0000Ng-54 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:19:36 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so64076fga.8 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:19:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <47D05FDD.2000808@codemonkey.ws> Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:19:25 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver References: <1204684458-2530-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <18382.35528.45399.427646@mariner.uk.xensource.com> <47CED952.3040109@qumranet.com> <47CEEEE5.9040809@codemonkey.ws> <47CEF29C.9020408@qumranet.com> <47CEF6CC.9020300@codemonkey.ws> <47CF96BE.2090908@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <47CF96BE.2090908@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed 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 Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >> Yes. I was actually thinking of tunneling the curses data but >> another option would be a more proper character-based encoding. The >> advantage of that is that you could also send over fonts. >> > > curses is very un-vnc-like, it's a single stream an you need all of it > to get something meaningful. Much more in the spirit of vnc is to > encode 'character tiles', and to allow coalesced updates like the > regular vnc protocol. Yes, my main interest in curses was to avoid having to deal with character mapping. I was planning on just using vte terminal to render the data. Maybe doing a proper encoding is the right thing to do though. > Ah, CGA as in color graphics adapter. Why not add the encoding to vnc > and use the regular -vnc option? if both viewer and server support > the feature, and if the display is in text mode, it would be used > automatically. Yes, this is what I want. I still want to be able to connect to it via telnet though independent of VNC. Regards, Anthony Liguori