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

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Anthony Liguori writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying code"):
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>> David Turner wrote:
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>>> For my specific needs, VNC and a separate GUI application are totally 
>>> overkill. However, it is true that QEMU itself absolutely doesn't 
>>> require to support any GUI jazz (you should probably let that to 
>>> forks/GUI wrappers instead).
>>>       
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>> What specifically, do you consider to be overkill?  Are you afraid of 
>> the performance overhead of VNC?  Is the lack of VNC clients a problem 
>> (assuming you don't want a gtk dependency)?
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> I think it's fair enough for people to prefer SDL to VNC for a number
> of reasons.  But why not just allow them to embed the qemu SDL window
> in their application ?  This is definitely possible in X although I'm
> not sure exactly how to do it with SDL.
>   

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.

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

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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