Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Support for RDP

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 01:47:17PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:41:25PM +0200, Pritesh Kothari wrote:
> > > I think we need to add an explicit tag to represent video devices
> > > real soon. At very least we need to be able to indicate the type
> > > of video card - QEMU supports 4 already vga, cirrus, vmwarevga
> > > and xenfb. We probably also need to be able to indicate whether
> > > a video card supports multiple monitors / outputs, and the amont
> > > of Video RAM, etc.

  agreed

> > in any case how about adding "multihead" and "3Daccel" to it and renaming ram to vram, something like this:
> > 
> >     <video>
> >        <model type='cirrus' vram='500' multihead='2' 3Daccel='yes'/>
> >     </video>
> 
> Sure, vram seems fine. I think i'd call multihead 'monitors' or 'heads'.

  unfortunately the number of heads might not be sufficient, e.g. with 4
heads you could have 4 in line or 2x2, the geometry and relative
positioning will probably be needed in some way.

Daniel

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