Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Dave Airlie
On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:28 AM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Izik Eidus wrote: >> >> That specific area in spice will be changed very soon due to new >> requiments that the offscreens will add. >> Windows direct draw allow modifying offscreen (or even primary) >> surfaces using a pointer giving to th

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Izik Eidus
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:28:18 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Izik Eidus wrote: > > That specific area in spice will be changed very soon due to new > > requiments that the offscreens will add. > > Windows direct draw allow modifying offscreen (or even primary) > > surfaces using a pointer giving t

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
Izik Eidus wrote: That specific area in spice will be changed very soon due to new requiments that the offscreens will add. Windows direct draw allow modifying offscreen (or even primary) surfaces using a pointer giving to the user, this mean we can`t know what parts of the surface was changed...

Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Izik Eidus
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:35:24 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Izik Eidus wrote: > > What you mean? how can it compress it? or what method? > > > > When there is no driver installed, we use compression that based on > > LZ... > > > > Okay, that's what I was asking. I'm curious because during gu

[Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
Izik Eidus wrote: What you mean? how can it compress it? or what method? When there is no driver installed, we use compression that based on LZ... Okay, that's what I was asking. I'm curious because during guest installation, I assume that even if you're using QXL, you are still stuck in

[Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Izik Eidus
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:19:19 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: > Izik Eidus wrote: > > On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:25:00 -0600 > > Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > > >> How does this work? > >> > >> Does Spice only work with QXL or can it also work with Cirrus and > >> std-vga? Does it degrade into bas

[Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Anthony Liguori
Izik Eidus wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:25:00 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: How does this work? Does Spice only work with QXL or can it also work with Cirrus and std-vga? Does it degrade into basically a framebuffer based protocol? How does it encode the bitmap data in this mode?

[Qemu-devel] Re: Spice and legacy VGA drivers

2009-12-12 Thread Izik Eidus
On Sat, 12 Dec 2009 09:25:00 -0600 Anthony Liguori wrote: > How does this work? > > Does Spice only work with QXL or can it also work with Cirrus and > std-vga? Does it degrade into basically a framebuffer based > protocol? How does it encode the bitmap data in this mode? It work with std-vga