Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:51:16 +0200 | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Unify KVM kernel-space and user-space code into a single project | | From | Pekka Enberg <> |
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote: >>>> There are all kernel space projects, going through Xorg would be a >>>> horrible waste of performance for full-screen virtualization. It's fine >>>> for the windowed or networked case (and good as a compatibility >>>> fallback), but very much not fine for local desktop use. >> >> For the full-screen case (which is a very common mode of using a guest OS >> on the desktop) there's not much of window management needed. You need to >> save/restore as you switch in/out. > > I don't think I've ever used full-screen mode with my VMs and I use > virtualization on a daily basis. > > We hear very infrequently from users using full screen mode.
Sorry for getting slightly off-topic but I find the above statement interesting.
I don't use virtualization on daily basis but a working, fully integrated full-screen model with VirtualBox was the only reason I bothered to give VMs a second chance. From my point of view, the user experience of earlier versions (e.g. Parallels) was just too painful to live with.
/me crawls back to his hole now...
Pekka
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