On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:06:22PM +0200, Andreas F?rber wrote:
Am 04.09.2008 um 11:42 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:00:31PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
I think we need to have some discussion about what the long term
front-end should be for QEMU. Otherwise, we're going to end up
with a
proliferation of front-ends. Personally, I'd rather move from
SDL to
GTK so that we can build a proper user interface.
As long as that's optional, because in a server deployment scenario
like
oVirt I don't want to pull in the GTK stack just to run QEMU vms. We
currently
have a minimal OS image target of < 64 MB in size. Adding GTK and
its deps
will totally blow that limit.
All graphical frontends have been optional (--disable-sdl,
undocumented --disable-gfx-check).
It gets a little more complicated when you have to ship this still in
binary packages though. Users typically expect us to enable all the
compile time options which are a available for a particular OS distro,
so they'd expect GTK enabled by default if we had that. At the same
time many people won't want QEMU to have a dep on GTK.