Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] qemu-gui based on wxWidgets and libvncclient

[Martin Bochnig]

+1


Marc André Tanner wrote:

>Hi,
>
>During the last few weeks i was playing around with the idea to
>implement a GUI for qemu and so this is what i came up with.
>
>Since i am still pretty new to C/C++ development (in fact i would call
>this my first real world C++ application) and not familiar with qemu
>internals i decided to implement the GUI independent of qemu itself. So
>from a technically point of view i just call qemu with arguments to
>redirect the monitor to stdio and to export the display to vnc (-monitor
>stdio -vnc display). I then try to capture and embed the vnc display
>within the GUI that's where libvncclient[1] comes in.
>
>It's this last step which doesn't yet work as expected. It is extremely
>slow and/or crashes after some time. But since i am not that experienced
>in both multi threaded gui and wxWidgets programming i am stuck.
>
>So i hope someone from the list can help me here, the two most important
>files for this issue are vncpanel.cpp and vncdisplaythread.cpp.
>
>My current development snapshot can be found at 
>    http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/qemu-gui/doku.php/download
>but don't expect it to actually work it's still buggy and in pre alpha
>state.
>
>Any comments, ideas, patches and so on are highly appreciated.
>
>At this point i would like to thank Johannes Schindelin for his help
>with the integration of libvncclient.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Marc
>
>[1] http://libvncserver.sourceforge.net/
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