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

[Anthony Liguori]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 10:00:31PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> Actually I'm not so sure this was a good idea in the end. I'm seriously
> considering re-writing the GTK-VNC stuff to use Cairo, which in turn
> can use 2-d hardware acceleration primitives - it really doesn't need
> the full 3-d acceleration stack just for scaling. 
>   

I tried to originally write the GTK-VNC scaling stuff in Cairo.  Could 
not get it to perform well at all.  I'd be really interested if you had 
better luck with it.

> > I think we need to have some discussion about what the long term 
> > front-end should be for QEMU.  Otherwise, we're going to end up with a 
> > proliferation of front-ends.  Personally, I'd rather move from SDL to 
> > GTK so that we can build a proper user interface.
> >     
>
> As long as that's optional, because in a server deployment scenario like
> oVirt I don't want to pull in the GTK stack just to run QEMU vms. We currently
> have a minimal OS image target of < 64 MB in size. Adding GTK and its deps
> will totally blow that limit. 
>   

Of course.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Daniel
>