Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-06 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: Yes. I was actually thinking of tunneling the curses data but another option would be a more proper character-based encoding. The advantage of that is that you could also send over fonts. curses is very un-vnc-like, it's a single stream an you

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-05 Thread Ian Jackson
Anthony Liguori writes ([Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver): I love the -curses feature but I really wanted to use it over a telnet: character device. This patch enables this and changes the syntax of the -curses argument to take a character device. Surely

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
Ian Jackson wrote: Anthony Liguori writes ([Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver): I love the -curses feature but I really wanted to use it over a telnet: character device. This patch enables this and changes the syntax of the -curses argument to take

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-05 Thread Avi Kivity
Ian Jackson wrote: Anthony Liguori writes ([Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver): I love the -curses feature but I really wanted to use it over a telnet: character device. This patch enables this and changes the syntax of the -curses argument to take

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Ian Jackson wrote: Anthony Liguori writes ([Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver): I love the -curses feature but I really wanted to use it over a telnet: character device. This patch enables this and changes the syntax of the -curses

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-05 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: I'm on the fence because while I like what I've posted, I'd like to eventually tunnel the curses data over VNC in which case, having a separate option makes sense. -curses would imply that the GUI would be rendered with curses. I'm lost. What does 'tunnel curses

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-05 Thread Anthony Liguori
Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I'm on the fence because while I like what I've posted, I'd like to eventually tunnel the curses data over VNC in which case, having a separate option makes sense. -curses would imply that the GUI would be rendered with curses. I'm lost. What

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-05 Thread Avi Kivity
Anthony Liguori wrote: Avi Kivity wrote: Anthony Liguori wrote: I'm on the fence because while I like what I've posted, I'd like to eventually tunnel the curses data over VNC in which case, having a separate option makes sense. -curses would imply that the GUI would be rendered with

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support redirect -curses over a character driver

2008-03-04 Thread Anthony Liguori
I love the -curses feature but I really wanted to use it over a telnet: character device. This patch enables this and changes the syntax of the -curses argument to take a character device. 'stdio' is special cased to not go through a character device. The rest use a pty to proxy the data to