Hi, I'm interested in developing tools on top of Parallels. Does Parallels support any APIs, and if so where are they documented? To make this more concrete, one of the things I'm interested in doing is developing a remote user interface to an image running in Parallels. So, I'm interested in the APIs that would be required to capture commands sent to the "video card" as well as those required to generate keyboard and mouse events. Thanks, Curt
"Try VNC. It's already done." VNC is a nice tool. It's improved a bit over the years, but still has several flaws. 1) A VNC server is required for an OS. Many operating systems have them, but some don't. 2) If a server is available for an OS, it has to be configured through the OS. There is no way to keep the configuration external. 3) RFB doesn't work well over high latency connections. 4) All RFB clients and servers that I know of are only moderately adaptive to bandwidh. RFB is admirably simple and performs adequately for many uses, but there are much better protocols for performance. See this page for some papers that detail more: http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/research/thinc/ http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~ricardo/thinc/
NX/FreeNX are much better than VNC as far as latency and bandwidth go. Unfortunately, client and server implementations are less available than with VNC. I'm looking for something more like this: "Net2Displayâ„¢: A Proposed VESA Standard for Remoting and I/O Devices over Networks Abstract: The proposed Net2Displayâ„¢ VESA standard is intended for remoting displays and USB I/O devices with responsiveness, performance and motion video user experience comparable to a local PC. This proposed standard will enable client displays to connect over wired or wireless networks to host computers located centrally in businesses or homes or remotely at service facilities." http://www.ncl.cs.columbia.edu/publications/adeac2006_fordist.pdf
