On Wednesday 14 March 2007 04:57, Mark Williamson wrote: > > > Here is a somewhat revised version of a patch I first made nearly > > > three years ago. The original thread is > > > > The idea here is quite similar to what the VNC server does now. > > > > If this is desirable for SDL too, then perhaps we should find a way to > > fold this into common code? > > > > Although, is there a compelling reason to use SDL over X instead of VNC? > > I sometimes do this sort of thing because it Just Works with no manual > configuring of port forwarding etc. I don't necessarily like to do it for > extended usage but it is very convenient.
Yes. VNC is all very nice (I use it a lot) but is hassle to set up, what with making holes in firewalls and/or port forwarding etc. This patch has the "it just works" property. In fact I obtained (by far) the best remote X performance by using both this patch and making the remote X connection with "ssh -XC -o CompressionLevel=1". The patch knocks out the majority of the data, and the ssh compression squashed what remained by more than a factor of 10. Doing this it was hard to tell that QEMU was not running locally. J _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
