Re: [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying code

[Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 11:24:42AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> If you search the mailing lists, I went down this route before I 
> originally wrote the VNC server.  XEmbed has some serious limitations 
> surrounding how events are propagated between windows.  I convinced 
> myself that you couldn't do what you really wanted to do through this 
> mechanism.

Howabout using passing a window xid from the GUI app to qemu with
command line paramater -parent ? This is how Xoo[1] starts Xephyr
(or Xnest) in itself:

[1] http://labs.o-hand.com/xoo/

> Of course, with the right VNC extension to support a shared memory 
> transport, I still contend VNC can be just as efficient as SDL.

It still puts a big speed and flexibility limit IMHO.

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