From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJlWq-00021T-Mc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:18:16 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJlWl-0001yQ-VZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:18:16 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42666 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJlWl-0001yJ-FZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:18:11 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42427) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJlWk-0005Mx-Pn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:18:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4B24BF5E.9090008@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 12:18:06 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice project is now open References: <1393046876.1549021260539141025.JavaMail.root@zmail05.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com> <4B226BFC.1040606@codemonkey.ws> <20091211204828.464707cf@redhat.com> <4B2297A2.8040102@codemonkey.ws> <20091211212135.645864f9@redhat.com> <4B229DCE.7070500@codemonkey.ws> <20091211213911.0dce90dc@redhat.com> <4B22A2D9.6020602@codemonkey.ws> <20091211222101.5e924d20@redhat.com> <4B22AFBF.6080709@codemonkey.ws> <20091211231334.3d8a599f@redhat.com> <4B22BFAC.90100@codemonkey.ws> <4B230F4A.2050506@codemonkey.ws> <4B23B286.9080501@codemonkey.ws> <4B23C020.6060303@redhat.com> <4B23D2D3.9010301@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4B23D2D3.9010301@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function