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Re: [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend
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Oliver Gerlich |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend |
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Fri, 16 Jun 2006 01:33:26 +0200 |
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Daniel P. Berrange schrieb:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:52:14PM -0500, John Morris wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 17:29, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If you are familiar with Tcl/Tk, maybe you could give some hints on how
>>>to embed the Qemu window into such an app?
>>
>>Embedding the emulator's window might not be the best way to attack the
>>problem. Especially since you would need to be able to detach it to be
>>able to go full screen. I have pondered the Tk frontend idea before so
>>lemme dump my random thoughts on the subject and see how many holes get
>>punched in em.
>
>
> With the new VNC server capability there is no need to embed the emulator's
> existing window. You can just have a GTK/QT widget which acts as a VNC client
> taking the video feed & displaying directly within the GUI management app.
> Similarly you can redirect the QEMU monitor console to a UNIX pipe when
> lauching QEMU, so the management app can fully control the QEMU engine
> to do suspend/resume, snapshots, media changesi.
>
> I wrote an GUI app in Python which did the latter already:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/olpc-qemu-admin-demo.html
>
> At the time I wrote it there wasn't any VNC support in QEMU, so I couldn't
> hook up the display, but with the 0.8.1 release it wouldn't be much effort
> to embed the display directly in the app via VNC. So I don't think there
> are any changes required in QEMU itself to be able to create a fully
> featured QEMU frontend easily on a par with VMWare Desktop, if not better.
>
> Regards.
> Dan.
VNC is a good idea... But isn't it a bit "laggy" for this purpose? I
think people accept a laggy mouse cursor in a VNC window that comes over
the network, but won't really accept that in virtual machine that's
running directly on their desktop. OTOH, I'm no VNC expert :) and maybe
there are tricks to speed this up?!
Regards,
Oliver
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Joe Lee, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Joe Lee, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Johannes Schindelin, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Joe Lee, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Rick Vernam, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Joe Lee, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Rick Vernam, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Oliver Gerlich, 2006/06/15
- [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend, John Morris, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend, Daniel P. Berrange, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend,
Oliver Gerlich <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend, Anthony Liguori, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend, Daniel P. Berrange, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Doing a Tcl/Tk based frontend, Anthony Liguori, 2006/06/15
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Johannes Schindelin, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Oliver Gerlich, 2006/06/15
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Oliver Gerlich, 2006/06/15
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