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[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API
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Anthony Liguori |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API |
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Fri, 21 Jul 2006 15:57:33 -0500 |
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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
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API, Daniel P. Berrange, 2006/07/23
[Qemu-devel] Re: Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API, Anthony Liguori, 2006/07/23
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API, James Olsen, 2006/07/24
Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: QEMU GUI-Frontend based on Libvert API, Daniel Veillard, 2006/07/26