Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] PNG screendump alternative

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/17/2012 05:45 PM, Rafael wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I  had already started to work on supporting PNG dump output on
> screendump when got to know there was another effort to do the same
> (see Add PNG screendump thread from Daniel P. Berrange). Anyway, I'd
> like to share my implementation which is a little bit different. It
> does not use any resource/lib besides libpng and qemu itself and is
> based on qemu-kvm 0.15.1 ppm_save code.
>
> I'm using that for a personal project developed at Mandriva which uses
> QMP directly to communicate with qemu VMs rather than using the
> libvirt although its usage is considered for the future. There is
> something more to show but it is just QMP related and soon I'll have
> it done to share.
>
> Comments and suggestions are appreciated.

I think the added value of this is minimal compared to the alternative 
implementation (just run convert on the PPM).

Can you talk a bit more about your use-case any why post-processing the PPM 
isn't a reasonable alternative?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers
> Rafael Cabral