On Tue, 18 May 2010, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 05/18/10 11:12, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > I think it would be better to implement an accelerated frontend for
> > rendering the framebuffer, like opengl or xv.
>
> Well. xv is pretty pointless IMHO. gl makes sense. But to have some
> effect this needs some major restructions in qemu, the current
> DisplayState infrastructure can't handle anything but a simple, stupid
> framebuffer. There isn't much to accelerate, except maybe scaling the
> guest display to fullscreen on the host.
>
> qxl + spice will change that though. qxl is a paravirtualized gfx
> adapter. Guest sends rendering commands. The spice protocol sends the
> rendering commands over the wire to the spice client, which in turn will
> render them (and can use gl to accelerate that).
Is the spice client going to live in qemu, or is it going to be
separate?
