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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG form
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Marc-André Lureau |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:14:17 -0400 (EDT) |
Hi
----- Mensaje original -----
> Yeah it wants png, jpeg, tiff. What I'm concerned about is that QEMU
> should be doing emulation/virtualization, not processing images for
> an
> end-user. Its main loop is not structured to do utility tasks
> unrelated to running the guest. If implemented properly QEMU isn't a
> good place to host this processing, and if done badly we block the
> guest and make it unresponsive. This is a general architectural
> problem, not something specific to your proposal but this is why I'm
> against putting this into QEMU.
>
> If you send a ppm over a file descriptor, what's the fundamental
> limitation which requires you to add this code to QEMU? Perhaps
> simply supporting file descriptors is the right level of support from
> QEMU.
That sounds reasonable to me, I would even remove the PPM support, and the
format conversion in this case.
It needs to be done somewhere though, and it seems reasonable to do it from the
source.
What if we fork a subprocess (linked with gdkpixbuf) that would do the job with
stdin/stdout?
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, (continued)
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Marc-André Lureau, 2012/03/12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format,
Marc-André Lureau <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/13
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Gerd Hoffmann, 2012/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2012/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Alon Levy, 2012/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Eric Blake, 2012/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Luiz Capitulino, 2012/03/14
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH/RFC 0/7] Screendump to UNIX socket & in PNG format, Kevin Wolf, 2012/03/14