[virt-tools-list] [PATCH v2 00/16] Add QEMU-like UI: VT console & basic VM state

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:27 PM <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau at redhat.com>
>
> Hi,
>
> QEMU provides multiple display backend, with different set of
> features. One of the richest UI is the -display gtk. It is quite
> minimal, and comparable to remote-viewer UI wrt fullscreen, zooming,
> grabbing. I haven't done a detailed comparison, but for regular use, I
> prefer the remote-viewer UI. The fullscreen mode has a popup toolbar,
> there is a send-key menu, it provides better desktop integration
> support: USB redirection, folder sharing, more complete multi-monitor
> configuration, screenshot. remote-viewer also allows hotkey
> configuration, and has an experimental "kiosk" mode.
>
> However, remote-viewer is lacking 2 important features compared to
> QEMU UI: VT console (for serials, and monitors) and basic VM state
> commands (power off, reset, pause..).
>
> This series add support for VT console over Spice ports, and QMP
> monitor to provide a similar user experience as QEMU -display gtk.
> Another RFC series for QEMU "[PATCH 00/10] RFC: spice: add -display
> app to launch external UI" provides a new "-display app" backend, that
> will configure QEMU appropriately, and start remote-viewer (actually
> any client handling spice+unix://). The result is that the "QEMU UI
> experience" is entirely out of qemu code base and process.
>
> thanks
>

ping
thanks

> v2:
>  - rebased
>  - "spice: hook into QMP port" now uses spice-gtk v0.36 SpiceQmpPort
>  - commit message updates
>
> Marc-André Lureau (16):
>   window: do not reset sensitivity of menu-send in rebuild
>   window: set sensitivity based on display capability
>   build-sys: check for VTE library
>   Add a VirtViewerDisplayVte display kind
>   window/zoom: deal with VTE display differently
>   display: ignore display that do not have toplevel window
>   session: skip monitor changes if there is no sized monitors
>   app: set subtitle using VTE name
>   app: append VTE consoles to display submenu
>   display: allow display without associated monitor number
>   session: do not take VTE display into account for geometry changes
>   app: create a window for VTE displays
>   spice: hook into port channel to create VTE terminals
>   app: add "machine" UI
>   app: add "vm-running" property
>   spice: hook into QMP port
>
>  configure.ac                    |  16 +-
>  src/Makefile.am                 |   4 +
>  src/resources/ui/virt-viewer.ui |  46 +++++
>  src/virt-viewer-app.c           | 154 ++++++++++++---
>  src/virt-viewer-display-vte.c   | 319 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  src/virt-viewer-display-vte.h   |  81 ++++++++
>  src/virt-viewer-display.c       |   7 +-
>  src/virt-viewer-display.h       |   6 +
>  src/virt-viewer-session-spice.c | 220 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  src/virt-viewer-session.c       |  22 +++
>  src/virt-viewer-session.h       |  11 ++
>  src/virt-viewer-window.c        | 107 ++++++++++-
>  12 files changed, 955 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 src/virt-viewer-display-vte.c
>  create mode 100644 src/virt-viewer-display-vte.h
>
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Marc-André Lureau