On Mar 16, 2015, at 10:59 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 16 March 2015 at 14:52, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote: >> >> >> On 16/03/2015 15:49, Programmingkid wrote: >>> Sorry but the GTK interface doesn't work on Mac OS X. We are all hoping >>> this will change in the future. >> >> What's the problem? Was the bug reported? > > Well known and longstanding -- the Cocoa UI assumes it > is the only thing present (and it hooks itself into > the startup sequence by overriding main() with its > own function). Yes, ideally we'd refactor it to work like > the other UIs, but in practice nobody really wants to > use anything other than the Cocoa UI on OSX so nobody's > got round to it.
That sounds about right. I would just like to add that nobody wants to have to install GTK and its dependencies after going thru the dependency nightmare that is QEMU.
