On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 16:34 -0400, 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? > > Joe
Firstly, we do not have to start from scratch. There are some excellent examples of gui's as separate projects. We just need a benevolent dictator to "select" one as a concept, so the project will focus on a main branch. I will put forward my vote in advance for gtk. Cross platform, always free, no strings attached. I am not a very good programmer. I could do a simple gui is one day, a comprehensive one may be a solid month. But the quality of my code would not be as good as the existing options. I tried qemu-launcher. Loved it, then upgraded qemu and it no longer works. Hence I would like the gui to be in the main project, so they stay synchronised. Fortunately a lot of the work has already been started in the separate projects. It would be better to select one and build on it, than starting over. I would never advocate taking away the text based interface. That in the MS domain. But an installer + default gui will go far. Kim _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
