From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G424G-0001F1-32 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:57:52 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G424D-0001EZ-Nc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:57:50 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G424D-0001EW-IY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:57:49 -0400 Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G424h-0003YC-J6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:58:19 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G424A-0007xZ-Bh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:57:46 +0200 Received: from cpe-70-116-9-243.austin.res.rr.com ([70.116.9.243]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:57:46 +0200 Received: from anthony by cpe-70-116-9-243.austin.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:57:46 +0200 From: Anthony Liguori Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:57:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <44C11ED6.3090006@opensourcedemo.com> <44C131F1.4090408@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: news Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API 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 On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:58:41 -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > Well, first let me say I am not a programmer and know very little about > GUI development and their toolkits. But, I have been reading up and > learning about what's out there. Having said that, I think "Virt-Manager" > is built using GTK/Glade with Python and I am not quite sure if that would > meet the requirements to having a cross-platform GUI for users. And, > something that would offer a native look & feel to the OS platform they > use. I don't wish to start a flame war, but the idea of a "cross-platform GUI" is somewhat of a myth. If nothing else, VMware and Parallels are both examples of having multiple interfaces optimized for all the platforms they support. > As mentioned in my previous email, for OpenSourceDemo.com, I'd like to > make available a VM software product with a GUI that can be used by users > using windows, linux, and mac-os. Therefore, I don't know if GTK/Glade is > the best choice for this. If it is, using virt-manager would be great! See above. >> Basically, there's quite a bit of work to do in libvirt before you could >> even start writing a GUI for QEMU. > Hmm, really didn't know how much work would be involved. But, I think it > would be good to start, if people like the idea of having a QEMU support > for libVirt. I just think it would great to harrness and leverage the work > behind libVirt and have support for QEMU. The GUI part would be easy to > add on. Supporting QEMU in libvirt has been on the libvirt TODO list for a while. There is quite a lot on the list though. Feel free to send patches to libvirt-devel though :-) > Also, if it would take a long time to have support for QEMU using libvirt, > I was wondering if anyone can help me come up with an interim solution to > have a gui that I can make available on the site. Would greatly appreciate > the help with this. Ideally, I am looking for a solution where the GUI can > package QEMU with it. So, as a user installs the GUI on there PC it also > installs QEMU in one install. This would remove the complexity of having > to install QEMU and then the GUI. This is how I see most of the available > GUI that exist work. I posted some patches earlier to implement some of the basic support for having a GUI bundled with QEMU. Hopefully that's the first step. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Evan