On 05/17/2010 05:42 PM, malc wrote:
In fact, couldn't we rather keep all graphic output out of qemu and
just expose VNC, possibly with self-made additions to the protocol
to speed up local rendering (thinking an SHM extension here)? Then
we could still offer a separate SDL based viewer that could do the
same things it does now. But we'd also open up the gate for a whole
new integration level with possible GUIs.
This idea is not new, nothing has come out of it till this day, so the
answer to your question (couldn't we...) is probably: no, we couldn't.
Because shared memory is just a graphics optimization and for most
users, the difference between gtk-vnc and native SDL isn't noticable.
So if a shared memory transport was the key missing piece, we'd have an
awesome GUI based on gtk-vnc that just had slower graphics.
IMHO, the problem with an external GUI is that the interaction just gets
too complicated.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
