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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window
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Daniel P. Berrange |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window |
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Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:20:57 +0100 |
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 12:06:22PM +0200, Andreas F?rber wrote:
>
> Am 04.09.2008 um 11:42 schrieb Daniel P. Berrange:
>
> >On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:00:31PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >>I think we need to have some discussion about what the long term
> >>front-end should be for QEMU. Otherwise, we're going to end up
> >>with a
> >>proliferation of front-ends. Personally, I'd rather move from SDL to
> >>GTK so that we can build a proper user interface.
> >
> >As long as that's optional, because in a server deployment scenario
> >like
> >oVirt I don't want to pull in the GTK stack just to run QEMU vms. We
> >currently
> >have a minimal OS image target of < 64 MB in size. Adding GTK and
> >its deps
> >will totally blow that limit.
>
> All graphical frontends have been optional (--disable-sdl,
> undocumented --disable-gfx-check).
It gets a little more complicated when you have to ship this still in
binary packages though. Users typically expect us to enable all the
compile time options which are a available for a particular OS distro,
so they'd expect GTK enabled by default if we had that. At the same
time many people won't want QEMU to have a dep on GTK. I don't want
to end up building multiple binary packages of QEMU, with & without
the frontend. It might warrant having a libqemu, and separate graphical
frontends, one GTK, one VNC,... That of course raises a question if
ABI for libqemu - it could be put in a private lib directory just for
the official frontends to use, and declared 'not for public use'.
Daniel
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window, Stefano Stabellini, 2008/09/04