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

[Gerd Hoffmann]

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> Beside that I still think it would be a good idea to separate qemu and
>> the gui into two separate processes, so you can close the GUI window and
>> keep the VM running.  It also solves the dependency issue for distros as
>> the gtk frontend with all the dependencies can just go into a separate
>> sub-package.
> 
> Extending VNC with a "shared memory" extension, similar to Xlib's
> MIT-SHM extension, and implementing it in QEMU and Gtk-VNC would be a
> nice way to do this.

Or use the monitor, which the gui needs anyway to implement the nice
control buttons for the user.  Which would it make easier to re-attach
the gui to the vm as all you need to know is where the monitor is ...

cheers,
  Gerd