Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] new SDL keyboard shortcuts to start and stop VM

[Anthony Liguori]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> > > I'd much rather see a real GUI client, perhaps implemented by 
> > > scripting QObjects or QMP.
> >
> > I'm with you 100% here.  I'd rather see our focus put into a proper 
> > gui based on QMP than to tack on features to SDL.
>
> Maybe slightly less than 100%.  I meant a native GUI in the same 
> process as qemu, but talking to QObjects through a scripting language.

The trouble here is that if you want to support being able to close the 
gui and open it again without killing the guest, you need the guest to 
live in a separate process.

The way VMware does it is by having a VNC extension that allows a shared 
memory transport which limits the CPU overhead.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori