Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PNG screendump alternative

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:45:56 -0300
Rafael <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I  had already started to work on supporting PNG dump output on
> screendump when got to know there was another effort to do the same
> (see Add PNG screendump thread from Daniel P. Berrange). Anyway, I'd
> like to share my implementation which is a little bit different. It
> does not use any resource/lib besides libpng and qemu itself and is
> based on qemu-kvm 0.15.1 ppm_save code.

There are a few problems with this patch. First, it should be against qemu.git
and 0.15.1 is a bit of an old release (we're moving towards 1.1).

Also, I'm not sure that we should completely rely on the file extension,
maybe we should have an argument for it...

Anyway, I recommend you join the efforts for the new screendump command
along with Marc-Andre and Alon.

> 
> I'm using that for a personal project developed at Mandriva which uses
> QMP directly to communicate with qemu VMs rather than using the
> libvirt although its usage is considered for the future. There is
> something more to show but it is just QMP related and soon I'll have
> it done to share.
> 
> Comments and suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> Cheers
> Rafael Cabral