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

[Charles Duffy <cduffy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jon Smirl wrote:
> On 12/5/05, James Harper <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
> What is an example of something that uses framebuffer?
Any application based on Qt/Embedded or Gtk/FB. Several distributions' 
graphical installers, I think. Trolltech's palmtop application 
environment, I'm quite sure. Any number of custom embedded apps intended 
to run in environments too small for an X server. Quite some time back 
there were a decent number of games written to target the framebuffer, 
as well.
Being able to use Xen to prototype embedded applications (at least when 
host and target architectures match) is a very, very big win.

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