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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 04:08:01PM +0100, 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.

Funny you should mention that. Anthony had code todo exactly that against
for both QEMU and GTK-VNC a while back. We had it in the GTK-VNC for a 
short while but removed it due to some race conditions in its impl, and
it interracted badly with our OpenGL impl. We could easily revisit this
idea if it were thought to be important / useful.

Daniel
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