We may be able to do the text only thing using svgalib
or something like that merged with some of the Xvnc
and bochs code....Kevin? Any ideas on this?
Drew Northup, N1XIM
--- Chris Emerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Julian Hall wrote:
>
> > One feature that I (and I suspect others) would
> find extremely useful would
> > be to allow the GUI to detach and attach to
> running processes. This would
> > be acheived, I guess, by using some kind of GUI
> server module, as a
> > replacement to the standard X11 ui module.
> [snip]
> > This would be (very) useful for setting up virtual
> server systems...
> >
> > Any comments/ideas?
>
> One of the things which annoyed me about VMWare was
> that you had to
> launch it from X. If we have a way of running a VM
> without any GUI,
> then it would probably be useful to connect to it
> later and see what
> the console looks like.
>
> I think that a lot of the functionality you're
> asking for could be
> implemented already using VNC, but it's still
> probably useful. I
> wouldn't think that it's too much work hacking the
> GUI plugin (in
> whatever form it may end up in) to support
> detaching/re-attaching.
>
> Personally, I'd be more interested in a text-only
> (still VGA?)
> interface.
>
> Chris
> --
> Chris Emerson, obsessed Cambridge juggler
> E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Web page:
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cemerson/
>
>
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