Re: [Qemu-devel] Sensible VNC encodings

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 21 May 2008, Alexander Graf wrote:

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

I am long past pushing for inclusion.

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

That was my original plan with LibVNCServer, merging it with xrdp.  
Unfortunately, the xrdp made some unfortunate design decisions which made 
this next to impossible.

Ciao,
Dscho