Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> Framebuffer is an interesting one. Virtio doesn't assume shared memory, >> so naively the fb you would just send outbufs describing changed memory. >> This would work, but describing rectangles is better. A helper might be >> the right approach here > > Rectangles work just fine for a framebuffer console. They stop > working once you plan to run any graphical stuff such as an X-Server > on top of the framebuffer. Only way to get notified about changes is > page faults, i.e. 4k granularity on the linear framebuffer memory. >
For X an accelerated device is probably much better than a dumb framebuffer. > Related to Framebuffer is virtual keyboard and virtual mouse (or > better touchscreen), which probably works perfectly fine with virtio. > I'd guess you can even reuse the input layer event struct for the > virtio events. Need to be careful if we want to support non-Linux guests. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ kvm-devel mailing list kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kvm-devel
