Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: VNC

[Christopher Olsen <cwolsen@domainatlantic.com>]

Understandable...

However I'm not sure about others and how they intend to use QEMU.. But I for 
one know that I do have a use for authentication within the VNC session.. 

You're right that it's supposed to be a standard protocol but it doesn't 
appread to be from the many different flavors of VNC i've seen and how they 
license it.

-Christopher


On Monday 19 February 2007 09:53, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Christopher Olsen wrote:
> > I've done some further thought and investigation and as far as using
> > QEMU inside a Unix environment, I see no reason as to why the
> > authentication couldn't be tied into PAM...
>
> Because this is supposed to be a standard protocol, meant for widespread
> use, not just on Unix.
>
> I see many developments in the VNC protocol lately, which only target one
> special use case. Which is quite sad, because I think that with just a
> little more thought the results would be so much more useful for others,
> too.
>
> See for example the inbuilt VNC server in QEmu. It does not exchange any
> code with any other VNC implementation. So, every improvement in this or
> that implementation is lost on all the others. Like I said, sad.
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho
>
>
>
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