Re: [Qemu-devel] Sensible VNC encodings

[Alexander Graf]

On May 21, 2008, at 3:20 AM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> for those interested, I finally broke down and updated my personal  
> fork of
> QEmu using LibVNCServer.  Amongst the benefits are Tight, ZRLE and  
> ZYWRLE
> encodings.  Note that TLS is not supported with LibVNCServer, but  
> nobody
> in her right mind uses VNC without an SSH tunnel anyway.

It might be a good idea to have this as an additional output, not as a  
replacement for the VNC support as it is now. Think of a system, where  
libvncserver is not available.

Another thing that came to my mind while reading this was librdp. It  
should be easily feasible to make qemu support RDP with that.

So what we really need would be a "video output" command line option,  
similar to the -vga or -display switch that was suggested earlier, but  
that handles the host's video output. This way you could just plug  
your libvncserver based output in and maybe even have a chance to get  
that upstream, as it does not break anything.

I personally prefer reusage of code, so the general idea of using  
libvncserver is great!

Alex

> Fortunately, Git helps me tremendously in maintaining my fork, since  
> I do
> not expect the mainline to have any usable VNC support anytime  
> soon.  If
> you're interested, look at the "vnc" branch in
> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/dscho.git/
>
> Ciao,
> Dscho