Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice project is now open

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/12/2009 07:28 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>> I think the question I was raising was not whether Spice could 
>>> handle X, but that given the things you can do with X, is all of 
>>> Spice really needed.  IOW, would we get 99% of the way there with Xv 
>>> accelerated overlays and Xrender based compositing for VNC?
>>
>> Suppose only 1% of spice is needed to support X. Given that we wish 
>> to support Windows well, does it matter?
>
>
> I understand X better than I understand Windows so it's easier for me 
> to understand things as they relate to X.
>
> My original question was how much better is Spice support for Windows 
> than it is for X.  If Spice is really designed for Windows and does 
> really well for it, that's great.  I'm just trying to understand what 
> it's good for and what it's not good for.

Spice was in fact designed primarly for Windows.  But given that 
graphics cards were designed for Windows and X tries to support graphics 
cards well, we should have a pretty good match.  Offscreen bitmaps and 
spice's client-side rendering model should work particularly well, I think.

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