Avi Kivity wrote:
Anthony Liguori wrote:
Yes. I was actually thinking of tunneling the curses data but
another option would be a more proper character-based encoding. The
advantage of that is that you could also send over fonts.
curses is very un-vnc-like, it's a single stream an you need all of it
to get something meaningful. Much more in the spirit of vnc is to
encode 'character tiles', and to allow coalesced updates like the
regular vnc protocol.
Yes, my main interest in curses was to avoid having to deal with
character mapping. I was planning on just using vte terminal to render
the data. Maybe doing a proper encoding is the right thing to do though.
Ah, CGA as in color graphics adapter. Why not add the encoding to vnc
and use the regular -vnc option? if both viewer and server support
the feature, and if the display is in text mode, it would be used
automatically.
Yes, this is what I want. I still want to be able to connect to it via
telnet though independent of VNC.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
