Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

[Oliver Gerlich]

Linas Žvirblis wrote:
> Jason Gress wrote:
>
>
> > I know this is a lot different than the discussion so far, but has anyone 
> > considered keeping SDL and using an SDL GUI similar to ZSNES?
>
>
> I did not check the source code, but it looks just like any other
> self-made bitmap-based SDL menu I have seen. It is like inventing yet
> another GUI toolkit.
>
> I am new around here, so I am a bit confused. What is this GUI all
> about? Is it about (a) replacing SDL with something else for drawing the
> contents of the window, or (b) providing GUI for configuring virtual
> machine options, just like numerous front-ends already do?
>
> I assume this is (a), as it is beyond me why would anyone want to do
> (b), when there already are front-ends for Windows, KDE, GTK+, Java,
> MacOS, etc.

Personally, I'd be interested to have a GUI for controlling a running 
Qemu instance: change CD-ROM, add/remove USB devices, save/restore VM 
snapshots (though this would also require to save/restore disk 
snapshots), and eg. provide buttons to switch between guest Virtual 
Terminals. Furthermore, I'd like to get information like guest CPU usage 
and guest hard disk access; this would probably require that the GUI is 
integrated into Qemu.
Whether actual graphics output is done via SDL or GTK or something else 
is probably not that important.

Configuration could still be done with the current command line flags, 
but if one of the many config GUIs could be integrated into Qemu, that 
might be useful as well.

Regards,
Oliver