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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver
From: |
Alexander Graf |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver |
Date: |
Tue, 18 May 2010 00:59:45 +0200 |
On 18.05.2010, at 00:54, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/17/2010 05:49 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
>>>> Then we could still offer a separate SDL based viewer that could do the
>>>> same things it does now. But we'd also open up the gate for a whole new
>>>> integration level with possible GUIs.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You could, but I think it introduces more complexity which just is going to
>>> get in the way of building a good GUI.
>>>
>> The main benefit I see by taking an always-vnc approach would be that
>> everything becomes 100% networkable. There's nothing getting in your way
>> because you're doing things on a remote machine. And you even get the same
>> look&feel you got from the local connection because it's the same tool
>> connecting you.
>>
>
> My current thinking with GUIs is that network transparency is more trouble
> than it's worth.
>
> The problem is, simple things end up being overly complicated. You can't
> just pop up a file dialog box to select a new CD-ROM ISO because you can't
> browse files on a remote machine. Instead, you need to have something like a
> "pool" concept or something like that.
Yeah - VMware solved that by showing you a dialog with the remote file system.
Pretty ugly.
Another solution to that would be to only enable the dialog box when target ==
localhost.
As soon as we look at server workloads, we do need to have network
transparency. But I guess most of this talk is moot anyways, since we have VNC
now. So if there is someone willing to take up on a GUI, he can just do so the
same as he could with a unified backend.
Alex
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, malc, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Alexander Graf, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, malc, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Alexander Graf, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Alexander Graf, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver,
Alexander Graf <=
- [Qemu-devel] qemu usage, K D, 2010/05/17
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Kevin Wolf, 2010/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Stefano Stabellini, 2010/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Stefano Stabellini, 2010/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Stefano Stabellini, 2010/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/05/18
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Anthony Liguori, 2010/05/18
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add QEMU DirectFB display driver, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/05/18