Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5 of 5] [UPDATE] opengl rendering in the sdl window

[Stefano Stabellini]

Anthony Liguori wrote:

> Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> This patch comes from xen-unstable and adds opengl support for rendering
>> the guest framebuffer in the SDL window.
>> SDL is needed anyway to open the window and handle the events.
>> Opengl rendering is optional and can be turned off at both compile time
>> and run time (--disable-opengl).
>>
>> Opengl rendering actually is enabled only when the buffer is shared to
>> avoid adding one more copy of the pixel buffer.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <address@hidden>
>>   
> 
> gtk + cairo is much more appealing to me than OpenGL.  The general lack
> of indirect direct rendering support and the spotty state of 3d
> acceleration in Linux is a major disadvantage to OpenGL.

As I suggested before, we could go both SDL+Opengl and Gtk+Cairo
introducing a new frontend.