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

[Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> I really hate this "You don't need this, I know it better" attitude. If
> it were only for the technical arguments, okay - I can understand that
> you don't want to add another magic key, and yes, doing it dynamically
> comes with some complexity. But all this talking about "non-existent
> problems" makes me think that you don't... really care about what users
> want if they are the wrong users (yes, I admit, this one is useful more
> likely for developers and plain qemu users than for those running their
> servers in KVM - but they are still users, right?)

OK, everybody, please calm down.... please remember that this thread
started from my simple patch that wants to implement something that I
personally feel useful.

So, from both pros and cons side, I try to read and study your arguments.

Meanwhile, I have another idea. I admit I never redirect Qemu monitor
to certain char device. perhaps, if I could simply write a HOWTO on
how to use this feature to implement simple monitor shortcuts, then it
will be acceptable solution.

I imagine the steps would be:
1. redirect monitor to a certain char device
2. make a script that send commands to this device
3. bind new  KDE or GNOME shortcuts to call this script.

Critics?


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regards,

Mulyadi Santosa
Freelance Linux trainer and consultant

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