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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Bernhard Fischer wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:45:39PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>  
>>> What does one gain with GGI support?  I've never seen a good answer 
>>> to this.
>>>     
>>
>> GGI supports a number of display-targets:
>> http://www.ggi-project.org/targets.html
>> umong them X11, quartz, directx, fbdev, vgl, vnc, wsfb, libaa,
>> terminfo, cocoa, etc.
>>   
>
> SDL has a GGI backend.  So you can already use GGI with QEMU.
>
> So, what does it buy to have QEMU use GGI directly?

Does GGI have an SDL backend?

You're in a maze of standard graphics interfaces, all slightly different.

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