Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: Spice project is now open

[Avi Kivity]

On 12/12/2009 05:11 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > I have no idea how SPICE performs now, but there's definitely nothing 
> > in a modern X Windows desktop that it cannot deal with.  The only 
> > negative point it might have compared to Windows is IMO the rendering 
> > of text.
>
> I think the question I was raising was not whether Spice could handle 
> X, but that given the things you can do with X, is all of Spice really 
> needed.  IOW, would we get 99% of the way there with Xv accelerated 
> overlays and Xrender based compositing for VNC?

Suppose only 1% of spice is needed to support X. Given that we wish to 
support Windows well, does it matter?

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