Re: [Qemu-devel] Sensible VNC encodings

[Anthony Liguori]

Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
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> for those interested, I finally broke down and updated my personal fork of 
> QEmu using LibVNCServer.  Amongst the benefits are Tight, ZRLE and ZYWRLE 
> encodings.  Note that TLS is not supported with LibVNCServer, but nobody 
> in her right mind uses VNC without an SSH tunnel anyway.
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It's funny that you say that because in my observations, hextile + an 
compressed SSH tunnel does just about as well as Tight.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Fortunately, Git helps me tremendously in maintaining my fork, since I do 
> not expect the mainline to have any usable VNC support anytime soon.  If 
> you're interested, look at the "vnc" branch in 
> http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/dscho.git/
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> Ciao,
> Dscho
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