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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> The problem with OpenGL is that it has horrible rendering issues if you
> are also using a compositing window manager like Compiz. You need an X
> server & driver which supports Redirected Direct Rendering [1]. No distro 
> currently has any official support for this yet. AFAIK, the next Fedora 10
> will be the first to support it, and even then only on Intel hardware[2].
> ATI is still a fair way off, and NVidia support is nowhere to be seen.


I don't think this should impact our choice, these are all issues that
will be solved sooner or later (hopefully sooner).

> For
> accelerated resize of windows though you shouldn't need 3d - the graphics
> driver 2-d hardware acceleration  support ought to be sufficient I'd
> imagine
> 

SDL doesn't offer this feature, and OpenGL is not just for 3D.