Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1675108] [NEW] Cocoa UI always crashes on startup

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Do, 2017-03-23 at 11:31 +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On 23 March 2017 at 11:13, Alex Bennée <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Technically its not a random thread its the vCPU context (which ensures
> >> the vCPU isn't updating while the display is being updated). But I guess
> >> the Cocoa is limited to not being able to update from an arbitrary
> >> thread?
> >
> > Yes. It's very common for windowing libraries to mandate that you
> > do all windowing operations from one specific thread.
> 
> Fair enough. Well let me know if that works OK on MacOS and I'll fold it
> in to the other console patches. In fact I might as well do the
> start/end_exclusive dance for all OSes and it will achieve the same thing.

Where do we stand with this one?

cheers,
  Gerd