RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add shadow VRAM - mouse issue to be aware of

["Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger@xxxxxxxxx>]

I thought I should expand a little about the `libvncserver.a' issue.  As
I said, the current version of the library, ver. 0.8, has this latency
issue.  The CVS version of the library has the fix in it so, if you want
a truly usable VNC mouse, you have to check out the CVS version of
`libvncserver.a' and install it on your Xen machine.  Once version 0.9
of this library is released this problem will go away.

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Don Dugger
"Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dugger, Donald D 
>Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:00 PM
>To: Keir Fraser
>Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add shadow VRAM
>
>Keir-
>
>I've sent out two new patches (1a and 3a) that address this 
>concern.  I've removed the check for SSE2 at compile time for 
>the VGA patch so that patch no longer touches the `configure' script.
>
>Unfortunately, the `configure' script still needs to be 
>touched for VNC mouse support.  The current version of 
>`libvncserver.a' checks for 1 input event and then sleeps in 
>its main loop.  The sleep is short enough that you don't 
>notice anything on the keyboard but this causes noticable 
>latency for the mouse.  I've talked Johannes Schindelin into 
>adding a new field to the VNC control structuce that modifies 
>this behavior to check for all input events and then go to 
>sleep.  Since it will be a while before this version of 
>`libvncserver.a' is generally available the `qemu-dm' build 
>procedure has to check for this new field and only set it if 
>it's available.
>
>All the other feature of these paches remain the same and, I 
>should point out, with the Summagraphics Tablet changes it's 
>now possible to run Windows on a VMX guest under VNC.
>
>--
>Don Dugger
>"Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale
>Donald.D.Dugger@xxxxxxxxx
>Ph: (303)440-1368 
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
>>Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:14 PM
>>To: Dugger, Donald D
>>Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 3/3] Add shadow VRAM
>>
>>
>>On 15 Mar 2006, at 23:13, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
>>
>>> Nice try but I thought of that :-)  The code checks at run 
>time also,
>>> for just the reason you state.  Also, I did measure and the runtime
>>> check adds no measurable overhead.
>>
>>Can you get rid of the compile-time checks from your patch 
>then, since 
>>they're redundant.
>>
>>I think that, although we'd like to track qemu's source files, we'll 
>>avoid their build system as much as possible. So I'd 
>>definitely like to 
>>avoid adding stuff into their configuration scripts.
>>
>>  -- Keir
>>
>

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