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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Daniel Gutson wrote:
> Hi,
>     I'm doing some development related with the displaying bits, and 
> wanted to give an early notice for syncing purposes (specially in 
> terms of Stefano's work).
>
> The development I'm doing intends to add a GUI, which the following 
> abilities:
>     - show more than one DisplayState in a single VT (I think this was 
> previously referred as 'DS multiplexing'), capable of being a mix of 
> graphic/text (see below)
>     - add a skin to each VT
>     - provide "buttons" with associated actions (such as keyboard input)
>     - define all these attributes from an XML file
>     - in the case of VNC, the ability to show a different VT in each 
> connection.

I don't think any of this is a good idea with the exception of 
supporting multiple DisplayStates.

If you want skins and such, you should just build an external GUI than 
connects to QEMU via VNC.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori