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From: David Turner <digit@google.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying code
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:26:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <60cad3f0901090926x1595e64cw1d646b91c40a1e42@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18791.34404.878201.724561@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

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On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>wrote:

> I think it's fair enough for people to prefer SDL to VNC for a number
> of reasons.  But why not just allow them to embed the qemu SDL window
> in their application ?  This is definitely possible in X although I'm
> not sure exactly how to do it with SDL.
>

to be fair, that might not be an ideal solution. QEMU emulation currently
requires frequent SIGALRM signals.
this means the application will not be able to use it for its own needs, and
a *lot* of system calls are going to
randomly return EINTR, which a *lot* of code doesn't handle properly
(*cough* *cough* libesd.so)


>
> Ian.
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-09 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-09  1:52 [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying code Daniel Gutson
2009-01-09  2:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-09  3:04   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-09  9:28     ` David Turner
2009-01-09 15:20       ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-09 16:53         ` David Turner
2009-01-09 17:16         ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-09 17:24           ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-09 17:42             ` Riku Voipio
2009-01-09 18:59               ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-10  0:01                 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-10  1:39                   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-12 15:25                 ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-15  8:53                 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-09 17:26           ` David Turner [this message]
2009-01-09 19:02             ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-12 15:31             ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-11  8:22     ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-12 15:33       ` Ian Jackson
2009-01-12 15:57         ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-09 12:04 ` Stefano Stabellini

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