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

["James Harper" <james.harper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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> Jon Smirl
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