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Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Beside that I still think it would be a good idea to separate qemu and
> the gui into two separate processes, so you can close the GUI window and
> keep the VM running.  It also solves the dependency issue for distros as
> the gtk frontend with all the dependencies can just go into a separate
> sub-package.

Extending VNC with a "shared memory" extension, similar to Xlib's
MIT-SHM extension, and implementing it in QEMU and Gtk-VNC would be a
nice way to do this.

Right now VNC works very well except for the overhead of sending the
image over a socket :-)

The Gtk-VNC widget (currently used by the Vinagre application)
accelerated in that way would work nicely inside a Gtk GUI providing
buttons etc. for controlling QEMU.

-- Jamie