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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG form


From: Kevin Wolf
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:42:36 +0100
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Am 14.03.2012 10:42, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden> wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>>> If you want to do it as part of the QEMU codebase then a thread is
>>> probably the best way - it avoids the troubles of forking a
>>> multithreaded program and letting go of resources (guest memory, file
>>> descriptors) that aren't needed across fork.
>>
>> That pretty much requires async monitor command support though, so the
>> iothread can continue driving guest i/o while the new worker thread
>> scales/compresses/writes the screendump.
> 
> The most practical first step would be simply sending the ppm over a
> socket from ppm_save().  The 'screendump' command today already blocks
> so no new badness is being added.  There would be no threads or fancy
> image encoding.

Saving PNGs would be useful even without a management tool.

Kevin



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