Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new SDL keyboard shortcuts to start and stop VM

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 10/26/2009 03:45 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 10/23/2009 03:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> Your answer may be, this is for a developer and they'll be aware of 
>>> all the short comings/gotchas but this ends up being a rather 
>>> user-hostile interface.  People are never as aware of short 
>>> comings/gotchas as we'd like them to be.  If there was no other way 
>>> for a developer to do this, I'd be more inclined to find a way to 
>>> support this but it's just a matter of writing a script or if you 
>>> really need a short cut, you can do it with standard gnome short 
>>> cuts or write a very simple vnc client based on gvncviewer (we're 
>>> talking a dozen lines of added code) to do this for you.
>>>
>>
>> vncviewer based displays may work now, but they are inefficient and 
>> will likely fall apart if/when we have 3D support.
>
> If it's chromium based (which I suspect it will be), you could 
> certainly tunnel it via vnc.

But you wouldn't want to.  You'd probably get decent throughput at the 
expense of greater cpu consumption.  Much better to have qemu talk to drm.

>
>> I'd much rather see a real GUI client, perhaps implemented by 
>> scripting QObjects or QMP.
>
> I'm with you 100% here.  I'd rather see our focus put into a proper 
> gui based on QMP than to tack on features to SDL.
>

Maybe slightly less than 100%.  I meant a native GUI in the same process 
as qemu, but talking to QObjects through a scripting language.

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