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Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:07:10 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:00:31PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> Actually I'm not so sure this was a good idea in the end. I'm seriously
> considering re-writing the GTK-VNC stuff to use Cairo, which in turn
> can use 2-d hardware acceleration primitives - it really doesn't need
> the full 3-d acceleration stack just for scaling. 
>   

I tried to originally write the GTK-VNC scaling stuff in Cairo.  Could 
not get it to perform well at all.  I'd be really interested if you had 
better luck with it.

>> I think we need to have some discussion about what the long term 
>> front-end should be for QEMU.  Otherwise, we're going to end up with a 
>> proliferation of front-ends.  Personally, I'd rather move from SDL to 
>> GTK so that we can build a proper user interface.
>>     
>
> As long as that's optional, because in a server deployment scenario like
> oVirt I don't want to pull in the GTK stack just to run QEMU vms. We currently
> have a minimal OS image target of < 64 MB in size. Adding GTK and its deps
> will totally blow that limit. 
>   

Of course.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Daniel
>