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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:10:39 +0200
From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open
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To: malc <av1474@comtv.ru>
Cc: Yaniv Kamay <ykamay@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:03:33 +0300 (MSK)
malc <av1474@comtv.ru> wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Izik Eidus wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:48 -0600
> > Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> > 
> [..snip..]
> 
> > 
> > Spice desgien is highly diffrence than VNC
> > The first thing about spice is that it isnt just a framebuffer
> > drawing and not a bitmaps protocol.
> > 
> > Spice protocl support multiple graphics commands, multiple surfaces
> > drawings, Spice is desgined to render as less as it can on the
> > server and instead to render on the client side much of the work,
> > To achive this spice use all kind of techniques such as depth
> > viewing tree.
> > 
> > We already have patchs that support offscreen surfaces -> the
> > architacture for high end 3d, this make things even more
> > complicated.
> > 
> > Spice is a library, it is library for remote display, it handle by
> > itself all the connection between the spice client to the host that
> > run the guest, it include:
> > sound, display, keyboard, usb, network tunneling (for printers) and
> > so on...
> > 
> > The patchs that we wanted to push into qemu were what is called VDI
> > interfaces, it allow to qemu work with what ever interface it want,
> > what so bad about that?
> > 
> > I think we should allow freedom of choice to the users to decide
> > what protcol they want to use, Spice and VNC are all diffrent and
> > were born to meet diffrent goals.
> > 
> > I would happy to answer more questions if anyone have
> 
> Any particular reason for implementing audio as a driver instead of
> a capture?


Spice doesnt have paravirtual audio driver, it use the AC97 device.
>