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From: | Anthony Liguori |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window |
Date: | Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:07:10 -0500 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080723) |
Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:00:31PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:Actually I'm not so sure this was a good idea in the end. I'm seriouslyconsidering re-writing the GTK-VNC stuff to use Cairo, which in turn can use 2-d hardware acceleration primitives - it really doesn't needthe full 3-d acceleration stack just for scaling.
I tried to originally write the GTK-VNC scaling stuff in Cairo. Could not get it to perform well at all. I'd be really interested if you had better luck with it.
I think we need to have some discussion about what the long term front-end should be for QEMU. Otherwise, we're going to end up with a proliferation of front-ends. Personally, I'd rather move from SDL to GTK so that we can build a proper user interface.As long as that's optional, because in a server deployment scenario like oVirt I don't want to pull in the GTK stack just to run QEMU vms. We currently have a minimal OS image target of < 64 MB in size. Adding GTK and its depswill totally blow that limit.
Of course. Regards, Anthony Liguori
Daniel
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