[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] vnc: Add support for color map

[Denis V. Lunev]

From: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>

Our current VNC code does not handle color maps (aka non-true-color) at all
and aborts if a client requests them. There are 2 major issues with this:

 1) A VNC viewer on an 8-bit X11 system may request color maps
 2) RealVNC _always_ starts requesting color maps, then moves on to full color

In order to support these 2 use cases, let's just create a fake color map
that covers exactly our normal true color 8 bit color space. That way we don't
lose anything over a client that wants true color.

Reported-by: Sascha Wehnert <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>

Actually this is a very old patch originally submitted in 2013 by
Alexander. The situation is still the same with RealVNC, it does not
connect by default to QEMU VNC. The problem is that this client is
really popular. This is better to be kludged.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Butsykin <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <address@hidden>
CC: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
CC: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
---
 ui/vnc.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ui/vnc.c b/ui/vnc.c
index d2ebf1f..ddd01fd 100644
--- a/ui/vnc.c
+++ b/ui/vnc.c
@@ -2094,6 +2094,24 @@ static void set_pixel_conversion(VncState *vs)
     }
 }
 
+static void send_color_map(VncState *vs)
+{
+    int i;
+
+    vnc_write_u8(vs, VNC_MSG_SERVER_SET_COLOUR_MAP_ENTRIES);
+    vnc_write_u8(vs,  0);    /* padding     */
+    vnc_write_u16(vs, 0);    /* first color */
+    vnc_write_u16(vs, 256);  /* # of colors */
+
+    for (i = 0; i < 256; i++) {
+        PixelFormat *pf = &vs->client_pf;
+
+        vnc_write_u16(vs, (((i >> pf->rshift) & pf->rmax) << (16 - 
pf->rbits)));
+        vnc_write_u16(vs, (((i >> pf->gshift) & pf->gmax) << (16 - 
pf->gbits)));
+        vnc_write_u16(vs, (((i >> pf->bshift) & pf->bmax) << (16 - 
pf->bbits)));
+    }
+}
+
 static void set_pixel_format(VncState *vs,
                              int bits_per_pixel, int depth,
                              int big_endian_flag, int true_color_flag,
@@ -2101,8 +2119,15 @@ static void set_pixel_format(VncState *vs,
                              int red_shift, int green_shift, int blue_shift)
 {
     if (!true_color_flag) {
-        vnc_client_error(vs);
-        return;
+        /* Expose a reasonable default 256 color map */
+        bits_per_pixel = 8;
+        depth = 8;
+        red_max = 7;
+        green_max = 7;
+        blue_max = 3;
+        red_shift = 0;
+        green_shift = 3;
+        blue_shift = 6;
     }
 
     switch (bits_per_pixel) {
@@ -2132,6 +2157,10 @@ static void set_pixel_format(VncState *vs,
     vs->client_pf.depth = bits_per_pixel == 32 ? 24 : bits_per_pixel;
     vs->client_be = big_endian_flag;
 
+    if (!true_color_flag) {
+        send_color_map(vs);
+    }
+
     set_pixel_conversion(vs);
 
     graphic_hw_invalidate(vs->vd->dcl.con);
-- 
2.1.4