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Re: [Qemu-devel] Multiple monitors
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Multiple monitors |
Date: |
Mon, 20 Apr 2015 08:20:07 +0200 |
On Fr, 2015-04-17 at 12:45 -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What are the possible ways to use multiple monitors with qemu (running
> locally)?
> (I asked this on qemu-discuss last week, but got no responses, so I'm trying
> here.)
>
> I read somewhere that spice supports multiple monitors. But I'm worried that
> with spice being network-based, it won't be fast enough for video playback
> (I've tried vnc, and it was too slow). Is it possible to have one monitor use
> sdl and the other to use spice/vnc/anything?
For a multihead setup easiest is spice+qxl indeed. virtio-gpu will be
able to do that too, but it isn't merged yet.
For multiseat see docs/multiseat.txt
> And I saw somewhere something about multiple monitors in sdl2, but I can't
> find
> anything relevant in the manpage. Does sdl2 support multiple monitors?
Yes. With sdl/vnc you can switch between monitors using hotkeys. with
sdl2 you get a separate window. gtk allows both (switching using
hotkeys or tabs, but also showing tabs as separate windows).
cheers,
Gerd