Re: [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying code

[Ian Jackson]

David Turner writes ("Re: [Qemu-devel] Ongoing changes to the displaying code"):
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Ian Jackson <address@hidden>wrote:
> > I think it's fair enough for people to prefer SDL to VNC for a number
> > of reasons.  But why not just allow them to embed the qemu SDL window
> > in their application ?  This is definitely possible in X although I'm
> > not sure exactly how to do it with SDL.
> 
> to be fair, that might not be an ideal solution. QEMU emulation
> currently requires frequent SIGALRM signals.  this means the
> application will not be able to use it for its own needs, and a
> *lot* of system calls are going to randomly return EINTR, which a
> *lot* of code doesn't handle properly (*cough* *cough* libesd.so)

I meant to embed the qemu SDL X window, by having the non-qemu
frontend create an appropriate frame and then pass the X windowid to
qemu which would run as a subprocess.

I agree that putting qemu and something else in the same process would
be troublesome.  (Tcl might be doable ...)

Ian.