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Re: [Qemu-devel] GUI for QEmu (ex "VMware Player" topic)
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NyOS |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] GUI for QEmu (ex "VMware Player" topic) |
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Sat, 17 Jun 2006 18:06:35 +0200 |
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Hi!
(note: Subject changed since it has noting to do with VMPlayer.)
if SDL is common to most guest screens: I agree with you
that the gui/toolkit should overlay the SDL.
In my opinion, introducing new dependencies should be avoided due to
portability reasons. QEmu already uses SDL, so it's an obvious way to use
it for the gui also. There are gui-s based on SDL, so the wheel is already
invented. :) (However, reimplementing a button or an editbox needs few
work I think.)
I was wondering about a new approach. People can reach the VM screen at
alt-ctrl-1, the monitor at -2 and so on.. A graphical monitor (a kind of
GUI) could be introduced e.g. at alt-ctrl-5 or alt-ctrl-0. It could offer
changing the cd/dvd/floppy image, cont, stop, commit, and so on.
When people run qemu with --help parameter, it could do what it does now
(print command line options). But executing it without parameters, it
could open that graphical monitor, where images, memory, hardware would be
set.
That way no new dependencies would be introduced, the VM could be set full
screen, and it would be completely be backward compatible. So noone is
forced to use GUI who doesn't really need it.
Another approach is GTK. I think people sould not fear it. Gimp and Gaim
also use GTK, and runs on Win32. They ship a gtk installer with the
windows binary (there's also a version without gtk), so people can install
it on windows with the well known next-next-finish way. If you don't
believe me, try it.
Best regards,
Miklos GYOZO
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"Software is like sex: it's better with a penguin." - unknown
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, kadil, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Oliver Gerlich, 2006/06/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, John Morris, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Tim Walker, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Kevin F. Quinn, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Stuart Brady, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Kevin F. Quinn, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Christian MICHON, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Oliver Gerlich, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Kevin F. Quinn, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] GUI for QEmu (ex "VMware Player" topic),
NyOS <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Joe Lee, 2006/06/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Johannes Schindelin, 2006/06/16
Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Mattia Gentilini (QD), 2006/06/17
Re: [Qemu-devel] VMware Player, Mattia Gentilini (QD), 2006/06/17