Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Extremely slow graphic updates

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 08:12:39PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I don't think QEMU uses control-alt at all in VNC mode, does it?
> I've never noticed it.
> But I've always used a unix socket or stdin for the monitor; maybe
> that makes a difference.

I was running in X11 mode, using Xvnc4 as server and then running vnc to
that.  Now that I have a patch that makes qemu vnc mode actually work I
can do straight vnc and then the keystrokes are not a problem.

> I used good old vncviewer for a while, until I found vncviewer can't
> do full-screen on one monitor of a dual monitor setup.  Vinagre does
> that quite nicely.  When I found out how to grab the keyboard properly
> in Vinagre I found it pretty good for QEMU.  Being able to switch
> between tabs to multiple VMs, and the bookmarks when you've got a few
> VMs on the go, are quite nice too.
> 
> Some colleages used a Windows VNC client to a VM I'd set up, and that
> just broke with QEMU.  (I don't remember which client.)  It displayed
> the wrong colours, so there's still something amiss somewhere.

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Len Sorensen