[Qemu-devel] curses interface and tweaks for 0.8.1

["andrzej zaborowski" <balrog@zabor.org>]

Hi,
since QEMU 0.8.1 is out and there have been some changes in handling
video devices recently, I re-diffed the old curses/ncurses driver and
made a patch against this version. While I was at it I added other
improvements and dirty hacks that I find useful, all the shebang is in
the file http://www.zabor.org/balrog/qemu-curses-etc.patch

The changes are:
 * cleaned up the code, made the internal logic more.. logical.
 * you can choose keyboard layouts with -k similarly to SDL (Fabrice
Bellard requested this).
 * you can switch between user interfaces using the monitor command
"ui interfacenamehere", without restarting QEMU (while this command is
a bit redundand, many people asked for it):
   ui sdl -- switches to SDL interface,
   ui curses -- curses interface,
   ui cocoa -- untested,
   ui vnc -- kills the interfaces and starts this new VNC server,
   ui dumb -- don't do this.
 * added virtual consoles support in the VNC server -- works same way
as with SDL as far as I can tell: Ctrl+Alt+2 switches to monitor, etc.
 * you can set variable names from monitor with "variable=value" (no
spaces around `='), e.g. "TERM=xterm" might be important for the
curses interface and DISPLAY or SDL_VIDEODRIVER values matter for the
SDL interface. If you started qemu on the X display localhost:0.0 and
then went to a different machine, you can issue the following:
(qemu) DISPLAY=othermachine:5
(qemu) ui sdl
and the QEMU window should magically re-appear on the other computer's screen.
 * QEMU saves monitor commands history to "~/.qemu_history" on exit
and restores the history when you run a new QEMU.
 * improved "sendkey" command (tab-completion for key names, sending
keys by keycode number, some bugfixes). I described this in some older
mail.

Regards,
Andrzej
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