RE: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen Virtual Framebuffer

["M.A. Williamson" <maw48@xxxxxxxxx>]

And as another also: a big usability benefit of having the framebuffer is 
that users don't have to have a working network or install any extra 
software. It's just a transparency thing; you don't really *need* it but it 
makes domUs behave more like "proper" machines.
It should also give better performance, as James mentioned. Eventually, 
it'd be nice to support accelerated OpenGL in domUs but that may be some 
way off.
Cheers,
Mark

On Dec 6 2005, James Harper wrote:

> Some things just work better when you can enable shared memory
> extensions under X, which obviously can't be done over the network.
>
> Also, X isn't the only thing that can make use of a framebuffer.
>
> James
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xen-devel-
> > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Smirl
> > Sent: Tuesday, 6 December 2005 11:36
> > To: Anthony Liguori
> > Cc: xen-devel
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen Virtual Framebuffer
> >
> > I haven't tried playing with X and Xen, but why doesn't it work to
> > just treat the multiple domains like a network? You run X in dom0 and
> > give it full access to the video hardware. Then you ssh into each
> > domain and start X apps, just like you do when using X remotely.
> > OpenGL will even work this way and be accelerated (as soon as X fixes
> > indirect acceleration). This model should let you get apps up from
> > each domain simultaneously on the X display in dom0.
> >
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