Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:01:49 -0400
From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
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Subject: Re: [uml-devel] virtual framebuffer device visible on host
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To: Antoine Martin <antoine@nagafix.co.uk>
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On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:11:00PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote:
> Just a thought, but how hard would it be to have a virtual device in the 
> guests that mimics a framebuffer device and is in fact an X window on 
> the host? I think this could almost be a killer-app.

There is such a patch in my development tree.  The problem is that it
totally doesn't work for me, even though it's fine for the guy who wrote
it.

It needs to be run on a local X server since it uses the shared memory
extension, but even when I do that, I get a black window with nothing
in it.

				Jeff

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