Hi, On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
> Johannes Schindelin schrieb: > > > > On Thu, 15 Jun 2006, Joe Lee wrote: > > > >>BTW, I am curious to know how much would it cost to develop a good > >>GUI-Frontend for QEMU that would be comparable to VMware. How much man > >>hours would this likely take? > > > > I do not know VMware. Anybody? I would be interested, too, to know how > > complicated that frontend is... > > There are some screenshots of "VMware Workstation" at > http://www.vmware.com (see Products menu). Didn't find screenshots of > "VMware Player" there, but Google image search shows a few for "VMplayer". Thanks. But I would like to know if there is a developer who has experience with the GUI. It is one thing to see the GUI, another to work with it. > > Should not be too difficult to reproduce > > it in Tcl/Tk (with a proper Tcl script as config format). > > If you are familiar with Tcl/Tk, maybe you could give some hints on how > to embed the Qemu window into such an app? I would go the easy way: just before starting QEmu, hide the Tk window... no need for embedding. Yes, I know this is a lame answer. But I am quite certain that most users would be happy about it. They do not *need* to do something fancy. They run the virtual machine, shut it down, and that's it. Ciao, Dscho _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
