Re: [Qemu-devel] VNC terminal server?

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 10:12:07PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Samuel Hunt wrote:
> >It occurs to me that this program would make an excellent basis for a 
> >VNC terminal server.

[...]

> If you use the vnc patch you kinda get a large part of this already. Major 
> issue is still mouse synch, but to be honest if you turn of all 
> acceleration in the guest it stays pretty well synced up now as it is.
> I use it all the time on my server to host a win2k session when I need to 
> access windows only stuff.. Coupled with kqemu it makes for a pretty quick 
> combination.

[...]

> Currently I run gentoo, freebsd-6 and win2k sessions on my server.. they 
> just sit there idle until I connect to them with vnc.. works a treat.
> 
> (server is debian)

Have you tried the vnc patch with current CVS? I'm seeing some issues
with -vnc-and-sdl, and with -vnc only, it looks like something is not
getting initialized, and I only see the qemu console in the vnc window.
It appears the guest is running, but no video is going to VNC.