Re: [Qemu-devel] Spice project is now open

[malc]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Izik Eidus wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:57:48 -0600
> Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
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> 
> Spice desgien is highly diffrence than VNC
> The first thing about spice is that it isnt just a framebuffer drawing
> and not a bitmaps protocol.
> 
> Spice protocl support multiple graphics commands, multiple surfaces
> drawings, Spice is desgined to render as less as it can on the server
> and instead to render on the client side much of the work,
> To achive this spice use all kind of techniques such as depth viewing
> tree.
> 
> We already have patchs that support offscreen surfaces -> the
> architacture for high end 3d, this make things even more complicated.
> 
> Spice is a library, it is library for remote display, it handle by
> itself all the connection between the spice client to the host that run
> the guest, it include:
> sound, display, keyboard, usb, network tunneling (for printers) and so
> on...
> 
> The patchs that we wanted to push into qemu were what is called VDI
> interfaces, it allow to qemu work with what ever interface it want,
> what so bad about that?
> 
> I think we should allow freedom of choice to the users to decide what
> protcol they want to use, Spice and VNC are all diffrent and were born
> to meet diffrent goals.
> 
> I would happy to answer more questions if anyone have

Any particular reason for implementing audio as a driver instead of
a capture?

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