Re: Question about OS/2 support under QEMU....

[Alex Bennée]

Roderick Klein <roderickklein@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Hello
>
> Recently a bug was opened to get QEMU to support OS/2 again (newer
> versions of OS/2).
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2198
>
> I would like to point out a company from the US supports a current
> version of OS/2 called ArcaOS.  I was trying to help out to figure out
> where I could point the company to contact somebody at QEMU (if the
> QEMU team is interested) to receive a copy a ArcaOS so they could test
> QEMU ?

Ideally to defend its support in CI we would want an unencumbered
download so an avocado test can be written that downloads and runs the
image.

> BTW where is documentation how to create clipboard and mouse
> integration for QEMU. I recently worked on a project for ESXi and
> would like to look what could be done to get VM integration for ArcaOS
> done for QEMU.

I guess you are looking for Spice?

  https://spice-space.org/

You run a guest agent on the guest that talks to some spice devices to
pass information back and forth between the host and guest.

>
> Best regards,
>
> Roderick Klein
> Dutch OS/2 VOICE foundation

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro