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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: VNC with KVM-84 doesn't work
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:09:04 -0600
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=46lorent wrote:
> Anthony Liguori a =E9crit :
>> You cannot combine -curses and -vnc.
>
> Simple dummy questions:
> Why cannot we combine visualization options?
> In other words, what prevent forks of back-end video message=20
> processing in order to have multiple views of the same virtual=20
> machines at the same time?
>
> And the corollary is:
> Why cannot we switch on/off available visualizations (ncurses, vnc,=20
> sdl) at runtime (for instance: using the monitor)?
> I mainly use VM as services: they are started with vnc display withou=
t=20
> any viewer attached, this configuration allows local and remote=20
> accesses to the VM display. But this configuration is static.=20
> Sometimes, I would like to enable the SDL viewer without restarting=20
> the whole VM.

There is an effort to make the video subsystem in QEMU more dynamic to=20
support the sort of features you're talking about it.  We're slowly=20
getting there.  It's just a matter of developer effort being a finite=20
resource.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
>
> - Florent
>
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