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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:31:58 +0200
From: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Yaniv Kamay <ykamay@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:48:53 -0600
Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:

> Izik Eidus wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:51:53 -0600
> > Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> libc is not a plugin.  It implements very well defined behaviors
> >> that have well understood behaviors.  Also, glibc generally does
> >> not crash :-)  I would not want a user to replace glibc with a
> >> different libc. 
> >
> > I think it problomatic to say "I dont want to use this library"
> > beacuse "Librarys can crush", do you have any reason to say it on
> > spice? did you look on the code and saw huge ugly bugs?
> >   
> 
> Libraries are fine.  But libraries are not plugins.
> 
> It's the difference between qemu writing directly to libspice verses 
> having a libspice-vdi that implements the VDI plugin interface and
> then a mechanism in qemu to load arbitrary libraries that implement
> the VDI interface.
> 
> If I understand correctly, VDI is a plugin interface.

Ok, I guess you think VDI-interfaces are doing much more than they do
in reiality.

It is just simple interface to Allow Spice / VNC / whatever not have to
de-duplicate code in order to get information from - lets say the
keyboard....

Is it really diffrence from any other function callbacks that used for
such purpuse?


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
> 
>