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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> FWIW, I have a different approach to doing what Avi describes that uses 
> a VNC client.  The advantage of this is that you can have a lot more 
> control over the pixel format to avoid this sort of problem in the first 
> place.

I like that and would like to use it to grab screenshots periodically
to shrink and show thumbnails in a web page or GUI.  Isn't it better
to use VNC for that than asking QEMU to dump a screenshot itself,
because the latter will pause QEMU for a moment?

Only trouble is, I want that to work even if someone has connected by
VNC to QEMU to actually use it - and they might connect in exclusive mode.

An option to serve a read-only VNC on another port would be nice :-)

Just saying..

-- Jamie