Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] opengl rendering in the sdl window

[Jamie Lokier]

Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >> Beside that I still think it would be a good idea to separate qemu and
> >> the gui into two separate processes, so you can close the GUI window and
> >> keep the VM running.  It also solves the dependency issue for distros as
> >> the gtk frontend with all the dependencies can just go into a separate
> >> sub-package.
> > 
> > Extending VNC with a "shared memory" extension, similar to Xlib's
> > MIT-SHM extension, and implementing it in QEMU and Gtk-VNC would be a
> > nice way to do this.
> 
> Or use the monitor, which the gui needs anyway to implement the nice
> control buttons for the user.  Which would it make easier to re-attach
> the gui to the vm as all you need to know is where the monitor is ...

You want to transmit the image or the image-blit-please protocol over
the monitor connection?  I think the monitor would need a few
improvements before it could do that well.

A nice thing about VNC-SHM would be the GUI could run on a different
machine to the emulator (SHM not used then), since it only needs VNC
and monitor, which can both be remote.

-- Jamie