From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KciqM-0004fA-Fp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:39:58 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KciqK-0004eD-2X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:39:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58433 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KciqK-0004e9-0e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:39:56 -0400 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:35431) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KciqI-0001bn-Cr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:39:55 -0400 Received: from jamie by mail2.shareable.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KciqG-0002R0-49 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:39:52 +0100 Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 16:39:52 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window Message-ID: <20080908153951.GA9282@shareable.org> References: <20080905120214.GD1373@shareable.org> <48C16207.5090808@eu.citrix.com> <20080905165536.GA12606@redhat.com> <48C168CE.5040700@eu.citrix.com> <48C348D3.6070702@codemonkey.ws> <20080908134140.GF4947@shareable.org> <20080908134833.GQ2315@redhat.com> <48C53D24.8030803@redhat.com> <20080908150759.GB8465@shareable.org> <48C5463D.8090005@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48C5463D.8090005@redhat.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: > > 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. > > Or use the monitor, which the gui needs anyway to implement the nice > control buttons for the user. Which would it make easier to re-attach > the gui to the vm as all you need to know is where the monitor is ... You want to transmit the image or the image-blit-please protocol over the monitor connection? I think the monitor would need a few improvements before it could do that well. A nice thing about VNC-SHM would be the GUI could run on a different machine to the emulator (SHM not used then), since it only needs VNC and monitor, which can both be remote. -- Jamie