Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[Avi Kivity]

 On 09/04/2010 04:56 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Maybe it's time to rethink the relation between QEMU and its frontends 
> / management tools? If we want to compete with the commercial products 
> (sic), we might agree on some "official" frontend per GUI-centric 
> platform, with a Git-based repository (like qemu-kvm.git) and 
> synchronized releases that may call themselves "QEMU", linked from 
> qemu.org, rather than having a variety of (outdated) Q* frontends per 
> platform of which most are nothing more than a configuration window to 
> spawn the regular qemu[-system-x86_64]. 

There is also virt-manager which is quite rich at this time.

> Currently what QEMU can point with is richer machine and hardware 
> emulation and its license; if we want more users than that, we'll need 
> to deliver what users usually want the most - stability, performance 
> and ease of use... and good marketing.

They may as well be merged into qemu.git directly, so long as:

- the GUI has its own maintainer
- the prepackaged GUI doesn't get access to internal APIs, compared to 
external tools

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