On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 05:52:14PM -0500, John Morris wrote: > On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 17:29, Oliver Gerlich wrote: > > > If you are familiar with Tcl/Tk, maybe you could give some hints on how > > to embed the Qemu window into such an app? > > Embedding the emulator's window might not be the best way to attack the > problem. Especially since you would need to be able to detach it to be > able to go full screen. I have pondered the Tk frontend idea before so > lemme dump my random thoughts on the subject and see how many holes get > punched in em.
With the new VNC server capability there is no need to embed the emulator's existing window. You can just have a GTK/QT widget which acts as a VNC client taking the video feed & displaying directly within the GUI management app. Similarly you can redirect the QEMU monitor console to a UNIX pipe when lauching QEMU, so the management app can fully control the QEMU engine to do suspend/resume, snapshots, media changesi. I wrote an GUI app in Python which did the latter already: http://people.redhat.com/berrange/olpc/sdk/olpc-qemu-admin-demo.html At the time I wrote it there wasn't any VNC support in QEMU, so I couldn't hook up the display, but with the 0.8.1 release it wouldn't be much effort to embed the display directly in the app via VNC. So I don't think there are any changes required in QEMU itself to be able to create a fully featured QEMU frontend easily on a par with VMWare Desktop, if not better. Regards. Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=| _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
