Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-27 Thread Anthony Liguori
Anup Patel writes: > Hi All, > > How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual > desktop ? > > I know folks have already thought about this and probably also tried > something or other on this front but, it will be good to know the downsides. > > Virtio-desktop can be a

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-25 Thread Blue Swirl
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:10 AM, Anup Patel wrote: > Hi All, > > How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual > desktop ? I have also thought about this, current virtio design is not very clean. On the downside, pure no-legacy approach might not work well if you want th

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Anup Patel wrote: > On 24 January 2013 14:55, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: >> > IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all >> > possible guest OSes can have support for it and d

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Anup Patel
On 24 January 2013 14:55, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > > IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all > > possible guest OSes can have support for it and different hypervisor can > > emulate it without worrying abo

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:40:24AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote: > IMHO, If we have something like Virtio-desktop specification then all > possible guest OSes can have support for it and different hypervisor can > emulate it without worrying about guest support. At this point x86 virtualization is matu

[Qemu-devel] [RFC] Virtio-desktop: Virtio-based virtual desktop

2013-01-23 Thread Anup Patel
Hi All, How about having a generic Virtio-based machine for emulating a virtual desktop ? I know folks have already thought about this and probably also tried something or other on this front but, it will be good to know the downsides. Virtio-desktop can be a separate specification describing a