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[Qemu-devel] Re: RFC for new features
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Emmanuel Charpentier |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: RFC for new features |
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Thu, 08 Jul 2004 20:46:47 +0200 |
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Dear Fabrice,
First and foremost, thank you for this marvelmous piece of work !
Fabrice Bellard wrote:
Hi,
As porting the SDL version to other OSes than Linux seems to become an
important issue, I plan to add the following features in the next days:
- Virtual console handled by SDL (Ctrl-Shift-F1 to get the guest screen,
Ctrl-Shift-F2 to get the monitor shell, and maybe Ctrl-Shift-F3 for
various logs).
I fail to see the point for use in a GUI. Maybe for "autonomous" screens (à
la Linux virtual consoles) ?
- Support for more compressed and cow disk images formats so that
filesystems without hole support can use cow disk images too.
Nice idea ! Maybe also support for raw devices (dedicating a full HD to a
given guest OS might be quite justifiable in some setups...) ?
- New tool to create disk images, to compress them and to convert
between any disk image formats.
Corrolary of the previous one.
- Config file support (syntax: qemu mypc.qmu)
This one is *the* most important ! enables easy use and configuration by
non-technical users (hint : use an easily-parsed format, allowing for GUI
frontends).
Comments ?
I have some further ideas, which need to grow up a bit before public
exposure. Furthermore, I'm still at odds with some difficulties with the
current version (CVS from end June), that I want to solve before asking for
more ...
Emmanuel Charpentier
- [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Fabrice Bellard, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, malc, 2004/07/08
- [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC for new features,
Emmanuel Charpentier <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Antony T Curtis, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Jim C. Brown, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Jernej Simončič, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Jim C. Brown, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Jernej Simončič, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features, Jim C. Brown, 2004/07/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC for new features (Console under Windows), Filip Navara, 2004/07/08