Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-12 Thread Luca Barbato
Chris Wilson wrote: > > QT is only now free on Windows, and supports far fewer platforms than wx > (no Mac support?). I personally don't like tcl as a language, and prefer > to code in C++ for efficiency. qt/mac exists. > > GTK is also specific to Unix (not Mac) and Windows, and looks weird on

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-11 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Oliver Gerlich wrote: > Personally, I'd be interested to have a GUI for controlling a running > Qemu instance: change CD-ROM, add/remove USB devices, save/restore VM > snapshots (though this would also require to save/restore disk > snapshots), and eg. provide buttons to switch between guest Virtu

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-11 Thread Oliver Gerlich
Linas Žvirblis wrote: Jason Gress wrote: I know this is a lot different than the discussion so far, but has anyone considered keeping SDL and using an SDL GUI similar to ZSNES? I did not check the source code, but it looks just like any other self-made bitmap-based SDL menu I have seen. It

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-11 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Jason Gress wrote: > I know this is a lot different than the discussion so far, but has anyone > considered keeping SDL and using an SDL GUI similar to ZSNES? I did not check the source code, but it looks just like any other self-made bitmap-based SDL menu I have seen. It is like inventing yet a

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-11 Thread Jason Gress
I know this is a lot different than the discussion so far, but has anyone considered keeping SDL and using an SDL GUI similar to ZSNES? Take a look (for those not familiar) at http://www.zsnes.com and grab a download. Many Linux distro package managers have it also. You don't need a SNES ROM

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-11 Thread David Fraser
John R. wrote: > On 7/8/06, Oliver Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is wxC still under active development? The CVS version seems to be quite >> old, and I also couldn't find any documentation. >> > > Well it wouldn't be the first unmaintained batch of code added to > QEMU... Slirp is the exa

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-09 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:03:12PM -0700, John R. wrote: > On 7/8/06, Oliver Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Is wxC still under active development? The CVS version seems to be quite > >old, and I also couldn't find any documentation. > > > > Well it wouldn't be the first unmaintained batc

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-09 Thread John R.
On 7/8/06, Oliver Gerlich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is wxC still under active development? The CVS version seems to be quite old, and I also couldn't find any documentation. Well it wouldn't be the first unmaintained batch of code added to QEMU... Slirp is the example that comes to mind. In

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Oliver Gerlich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim C. Brown schrieb: > For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ > in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). > > http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ > > Requiring this as a dependency would make it easier to dea

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 11:13:52 -0400 "Jim C. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good question. I'm not aware of a way to call Python code from inside > of C. See http://docs.python.org/ext/ext.html However doing this just means yet another language dependency. -- Kevin F. Quinn signature.asc

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Jim C. Brown
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:02:31AM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > Jim C. Brown wrote: > >For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ > >in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). > > > >http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ > > > >Requiring this as a dependency would make

Re: wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Joe Lee
Jim C. Brown wrote: For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ Requiring this as a dependency would make it easier to deal with issues such as C++ ABI compatibility by avoiding the

wxWidgets and C: was Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-08 Thread Jim C. Brown
For the record, we can use wxWidgets in qemu even though we can not use C++ in qemu (something that I would be strongly against). http://wxc.sourceforge.net/ Requiring this as a dependency would make it easier to deal with issues such as C++ ABI compatibility by avoiding the direct use of C++. T

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-07 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : > I personally don't like tcl as a language, and prefer to code in C++ for : > efficiency. : : Hmmm. "C++" and "efficiency" _does_ constitute a contradiction. Just think : "operator+()". Honestly, the m

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-07 Thread Johannes Schindelin
Hi, On Sat, 8 Jul 2006, Chris Wilson wrote: > I personally don't like tcl as a language, and prefer to code in C++ for > efficiency. Hmmm. "C++" and "efficiency" _does_ constitute a contradiction. Just think "operator+()". Honestly, the most inefficient code I saw was done in C++. You really

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-07 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Luca, Not wishing to start an argument, just to learn: On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Luca Barbato wrote: The library is incompatible with itself depending on the configure time options (see string constructors vs unicode string constructors) It's perfectly possible to write code that compiles and w

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-05 Thread Luca Barbato
Chris Wilson wrote: > > I'd be interested to know why you dislike it. The library is incompatible with itself depending on the configure time options (see string constructors vs unicode string constructors) Its ABI/API changes too often (ok, that is the result of they fixing lots of bugs that r

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-07-01 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Luca, On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, Luca Barbato wrote: Fabrice Bellard wrote: Concerning the QEMU GUI, my mind slightly evolved since my last posts on the topic: I think that a wxWidgets GUI would be the best as it is reasonnably portable and because it uses the native GUIs. wx is nasty at best.

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-30 Thread Dan Sandberg
Christian MICHON wrote: On 6/21/06, Fabrice Bellard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Concerning the QEMU GUI, my mind slightly evolved since my last posts on the topic: I think that a wxWidgets GUI would be the best as it is reasonnably portable and because it uses the native GUIs. If someone

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-29 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 05:05:25PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > Daniel, thanks for your info and comments below. I really like the > concept and work being done with virt-manager using the libvirt API. > Question: > Is the virt-manager project run by Redhat or yourself? At the moment its just me worki

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-29 Thread Joe Lee
Daniel, thanks for your info and comments below. I really like the concept and work being done with virt-manager using the libvirt API. Question: Is the virt-manager project run by Redhat or yourself? In what OS platform will virt-manager run under (Windows, Linux, OS-X) - Essentially, how cross

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-29 Thread Daniel P. Berrange
On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 07:03:31PM -0400, Joe Lee wrote: > > > >I would be interested in a GUI that is not specific to QEMU. e.g. Xen/VT, > >Basilisk II, SheepShaver, etc. ;-) > Gwenole, can you elaborate more on your comments above. Are your > comments referring to having a GUI that can both run

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-28 Thread Joe Lee
I would be interested in a GUI that is not specific to QEMU. e.g. Xen/VT, Basilisk II, SheepShaver, etc. ;-) Gwenole, can you elaborate more on your comments above. Are your comments referring to having a GUI that can both run and manage several virtualization product (QEMU, XEN, etc) from one

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-23 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:53:54 -0500 Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > > Part of that should be to determine what the GUI will actually do; > > You're getting ahead of yourself. Just getting qemu to start with > wxWidgets instead of SDL would be a big step in th

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
Kevin F. Quinn wrote: Part of that should be to determine what the GUI will actually do; You're getting ahead of yourself. Just getting qemu to start with wxWidgets instead of SDL would be a big step in the right direction. At this point you're talking about embedding the Qemu guest window

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-22 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:50:10 -0500 Anthony Liguori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fabrice Bellard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Concerning the QEMU GUI, my mind slightly evolved since my last > > posts on the topic: I think that a wxWidgets GUI would be the best > > as it is reasonnably portable and becaus

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-22 Thread Anthony Liguori
Fabrice Bellard wrote: Hi, Concerning the QEMU GUI, my mind slightly evolved since my last posts on the topic: I think that a wxWidgets GUI would be the best as it is reasonnably portable and because it uses the native GUIs. I think the first step is to validate whether wxWidgets will be ad

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-22 Thread gbeauchesne
Hi, > If people are interested, we could try to port Q as a base, since > it's going to be obsolete anyway (either by the new QEMU GUI or > leopard)... :) I would be interested in a GUI that is not specific to QEMU. e.g. Xen/VT, Basilisk II, SheepShaver, etc. ;-) That could imply the use of an i

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-22 Thread gbeauchesne
Hi, > If people are interested, we could try to port Q as a base, since > it's going to be obsolete anyway (either by the new QEMU GUI or > leopard)... :) I would be in a GUI that is not specific to QEMU. e.g. Xen/VT, Basilisk II, SheepShaver, etc. ;-) That could imply the use of an internal con

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-22 Thread Christian MICHON
On 6/21/06, Fabrice Bellard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Concerning the QEMU GUI, my mind slightly evolved since my last posts on the topic: I think that a wxWidgets GUI would be the best as it is reasonnably portable and because it uses the native GUIs. If someone is interested, I am ready t

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-22 Thread Luca Barbato
Fabrice Bellard wrote: > Hi, > > Concerning the QEMU GUI, my mind slightly evolved since my last posts on > the topic: I think that a wxWidgets GUI would be the best as it is > reasonnably portable and because it uses the native GUIs. wx is nasty at best. -- Luca Barbato Gentoo/linux Gentoo/P

Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU GUI

2006-06-21 Thread Mike Kronenberg
Great Idea... This would be in c++ then, or do You fancy another wxWidget flavour? (I remember You did not like c++ in QEMU) If people are interested, we could try to port Q as a base, since it's going to be obsolete anyway (either by the new QEMU GUI or leopard)... :) http://www.kju-app