From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9jqk-0002p0-I3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:10:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9jqi-0005kX-Q5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:10:42 -0400 Received: from mail-ob0-f173.google.com ([209.85.214.173]:51926) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9jqi-0005kC-LD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:10:40 -0400 Received: by obbwd20 with SMTP id wd20so1452968obb.4 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F67A0CC.1030009@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:10:36 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PNG screendump alternative List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Rafael Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 03/17/2012 05:45 PM, Rafael wrote: > Hi, > > I had already started to work on supporting PNG dump output on > screendump when got to know there was another effort to do the same > (see Add PNG screendump thread from Daniel P. Berrange). Anyway, I'd > like to share my implementation which is a little bit different. It > does not use any resource/lib besides libpng and qemu itself and is > based on qemu-kvm 0.15.1 ppm_save code. > > I'm using that for a personal project developed at Mandriva which uses > QMP directly to communicate with qemu VMs rather than using the > libvirt although its usage is considered for the future. There is > something more to show but it is just QMP related and soon I'll have > it done to share. > > Comments and suggestions are appreciated. I think the added value of this is minimal compared to the alternative implementation (just run convert on the PPM). Can you talk a bit more about your use-case any why post-processing the PPM isn't a reasonable alternative? Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Cheers > Rafael Cabral