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Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> The idea is that vnc.c (and in the near future sdl.c too) strictly
>> follows the guest display resolution and notifies the client of any
>> change. As a consequence we can save two colour conversions: one between
>> vga and vnc, another one between the vnc server and the vnc client.
>>   
> 
> I have mixed feelings about this.  On the one hand, reducing the copying
> is a good thing.  On the other hand, we pretty much make it impossible
> to ever support multiple clients.


Do you mean multiple vnc clients? Or do you mean sdl and vnc at the same
time?
Either way I don't think my patches prevent any of these scenarios.

 
> I'm going to be travelling tomorrow but I'll look through these patches
> in more detail over the weekend.
> 

Thanks.