Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5 of 5] [UPDATE] opengl rendering in the sdl window

[Anthony Liguori]

Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> This patch comes from xen-unstable and adds opengl support for rendering
> the guest framebuffer in the SDL window.
> SDL is needed anyway to open the window and handle the events.
> Opengl rendering is optional and can be turned off at both compile time
> and run time (--disable-opengl).
>
> Opengl rendering actually is enabled only when the buffer is shared to
> avoid adding one more copy of the pixel buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <address@hidden>
>   

gtk + cairo is much more appealing to me than OpenGL.  The general lack 
of indirect direct rendering support and the spotty state of 3d 
acceleration in Linux is a major disadvantage to OpenGL.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori