On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:58:41 -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > Well, first let me say I am not a programmer and know very little about > GUI development and their toolkits. But, I have been reading up and > learning about what's out there. Having said that, I think "Virt-Manager" > is built using GTK/Glade with Python and I am not quite sure if that would > meet the requirements to having a cross-platform GUI for users. And, > something that would offer a native look & feel to the OS platform they > use.
I don't wish to start a flame war, but the idea of a "cross-platform GUI" is somewhat of a myth. If nothing else, VMware and Parallels are both examples of having multiple interfaces optimized for all the platforms they support. > As mentioned in my previous email, for OpenSourceDemo.com, I'd like to > make available a VM software product with a GUI that can be used by users > using windows, linux, and mac-os. Therefore, I don't know if GTK/Glade is > the best choice for this. If it is, using virt-manager would be great! See above. >> Basically, there's quite a bit of work to do in libvirt before you could >> even start writing a GUI for QEMU. > Hmm, really didn't know how much work would be involved. But, I think it > would be good to start, if people like the idea of having a QEMU support > for libVirt. I just think it would great to harrness and leverage the work > behind libVirt and have support for QEMU. The GUI part would be easy to > add on. Supporting QEMU in libvirt has been on the libvirt TODO list for a while. There is quite a lot on the list though. Feel free to send patches to libvirt-devel though :-) > Also, if it would take a long time to have support for QEMU using libvirt, > I was wondering if anyone can help me come up with an interim solution to > have a gui that I can make available on the site. Would greatly appreciate > the help with this. Ideally, I am looking for a solution where the GUI can > package QEMU with it. So, as a user installs the GUI on there PC it also > installs QEMU in one install. This would remove the complexity of having > to install QEMU and then the GUI. This is how I see most of the available > GUI that exist work. I posted some patches earlier to implement some of the basic support for having a GUI bundled with QEMU. Hopefully that's the first step. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Evan _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
