Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: RFC for new features

[Julian Seward]

> Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
>
> 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).

Good idea.  Yes.

> > - Support for more compressed and cow disk images formats so that
> > filesystems without hole support can use cow disk images too.

Well, maybe, but not critical.

> 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 ...

I agree.  Fabrice, it would be good to do a stable 0.5.6 release
before moving on to this new stuff.  It's been quite a while 
since 0.5.5 -- almost 2 months -- and I get the impression that quite 
a lot has improved in that time.

J