Re: [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying code

[Ian Jackson]

Anthony Liguori writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying 
code"):
> David Turner wrote:
> > For my specific needs, VNC and a separate GUI application are totally 
> > overkill. However, it is true that QEMU itself absolutely doesn't 
> > require to support any GUI jazz (you should probably let that to 
> > forks/GUI wrappers instead).
...
> What specifically, do you consider to be overkill?  Are you afraid of 
> the performance overhead of VNC?  Is the lack of VNC clients a problem 
> (assuming you don't want a gtk dependency)?

I think it's fair enough for people to prefer SDL to VNC for a number
of reasons.  But why not just allow them to embed the qemu SDL window
in their application ?  This is definitely possible in X although I'm
not sure exactly how to do it with SDL.

Ian.