Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] VNC display support for QEMU

[Troy Benjegerdes <hozer@hozed.org>]

> Where 1 is the first display (port 5901).  This syntax may change in the 
> near future to support binding to a particular interface.  It's very 
> useful to use an absolute mouse with VNC as the relative support is 
> quite poor.  It may be useful to adapt the libvncserver patch's 
> calibration code here but I've not attempted to do that yet.
> 
> This patch is still experimental.  I've tested it with RealVNC and 
> TightVNC under a variety of depths but I won't be suprised if there are 
> still problems.  I only implement Raw, CopyRect, and Hextile encodings 
> too.  Any sort of palette color mode or pixel format that QEMU doesn't 
> support will not work either.
> 
> One thing you may notice is that RealVNC has some issues with being 
> disconnected.  This is because it likes to switch from 8bit to 32bit 
> depths automatically at startup.  Unfortunately, there is a race 
> condition in the VNC protocol and since this implementation is 
> asynchronous, we seem to be much more prone to exposing this.
> 
> A short near-term TODO list is:
> 
> 1) More testing
> 2) Support switching between monitor/serial
> 3) Support a better encoding (like TightEncoding or ZRLE)
> 4) Support a vnc password (and perhaps stuff like TLS)
> 
> Any feedback is greatly appreciated (especially with how it works with 
> clients I've not tested).

realvnc on debian-ppc (xvncviewer-3.3.7) has endian issues (the colors
are wrong). However, mouse tracking and dragging windows actually
*works*. (This is with the version currently in cvs)