Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] Re: Supporting hypervisor specific APIs in libvirt
On 03/25/2010 10:18 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> libqemu.so would be a C API. C is not the first choice for writing GUIs or
management applications. So it would need to be further wrapped.
>
> We also need to allow qemu to control the display directly, without going through
vnc.
>
For the current functionality I tend to disagree. All that we need is an shm vnc
extension that allows the GUI and qemu to not send image data over the wire, but only the
dirtyness information.
It still means an extra copy. I don't think we want to share the guest
framebuffer (it includes offscreen bitmaps), so we'll need to copy it
somewhere else. It's even worse with qxl/spice where there is no
framebuffer.
As soon as we get to 3D things might start to look different.
Very different.
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