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Copilot AI commented Dec 20, 2025

The emulator was showing only terminal output with no visual VM display, and lacked proper handling for compressed disk images.

Changes

VM Display Window

  • Added visual VM display container in emulator page with boot animation sequence
  • Simulated desktop environment shows browser logo, resource stats (RAM/VRAM), and status
  • Status badge indicates "Simulation Mode", "Running", or "Stopped"

img.gz Decompression

  • Stream-based decompression using zlib with proper error handling and cleanup
  • Auto-creates vm-images/ directory on startup
  • Checks for existing .img before attempting decompression

VNC Configuration

  • QEMU args updated to use VNC display instead of headless mode
  • VNC port management starting from 5900
  • Port info passed to frontend for connection instructions

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed duplicate console messages (stdout/stderr using same emitter)
  • Added accessibility attributes for screen readers

Example

// Decompression with proper stream cleanup
const cleanup = (err) => {
    source.destroy();
    gunzip.destroy();
    destination.destroy();
    fs.unlink(imgPath, () => {});
    reject(err);
};

Screenshots

Main Page

Main Page

VM Display Window

VM Display

Original prompt

update the process of decompressing and adding the img.gz files into the vm, as currentley it is just giving errors. also add a vm window, so you can actualy see thevm instead of just the terminal. make shure that the vm boots up (only midori is implamented) and thet the img.gz file and vm load


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Copilot AI and others added 2 commits December 20, 2025 23:26
Co-authored-by: sriail <225764385+sriail@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: sriail <225764385+sriail@users.noreply.github.com>
Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Update process for decompressing and adding img.gz files to VM Add VM display window and img.gz decompression support Dec 20, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from sriail December 20, 2025 23:31
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