Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> writes: > Am 30.07.2012 18:19, schrieb Alon Levy: >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 09:54:27PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >>> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:25 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: >>> >>>> [...] why not go all the way to qxl? >>>> >>>> That will give you better graphics performance with no need to hack. >>> >>> Well, qxl is pretty awful from what I can see so far. [...] >> >> I would love to hear something more specific about this. I assume you >> are talking about libspice-server and not the device itself, since the >> device itself has nothing specifically matching windows. > > I can't comment on what Ben meant, but from my perspective the really > awful thing about SPICE was its huge tree of dependencies, including a > very specific version of celt that we now need to package and maintain > specifically for SPICE. At least during the big QOM refactorings.
Ack. This is why I've been advocating for a new PV device model that can negotiation in full SPICE support. Then we could keep libspice an optional dependency, but move all guests to use a single graphics driver. Likewise, management tools wouldn't need to worry about multiple types of graphics cards. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Elsewhere QEMU is built around the principle of opting individual > features in rather than requiring a whole bunch of stuff just to do a > basic qxl compile test for patches. > > Andreas > > -- > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany > GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
