Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] VNC display support for QEMU

[Troy Benjegerdes]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 03:03:55AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> > One thing you may notice is that RealVNC has some issues with being
> > disconnected.  This is because it likes to switch from 8bit to 32bit depths
> > automatically at startup.  Unfortunately, there is a race condition in the 
> > VNC
> > protocol and since this implementation is asynchronous, we seem to be much
> > more prone to exposing this.
> 
> This, along with other problems, has been solved with LibVNCServer. But of 
> course, you are welcome to solve them again.

I have noticed that interactive performance with the current libvncserver
based patches is quite bad compared to doing the same thing on SDL.
Maybe re-implementing vnc will uncover why it is slow.