Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Reducing X communication bandwidth, take 2

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Julian Seward wrote:

> In fact I obtained (by far) the best remote X performance by using both 
> this patch and making the remote X connection with "ssh -XC -o 
> CompressionLevel=1".  The patch knocks out the majority of the data, and 
> the ssh compression squashed what remained by more than a factor of 10.  
> Doing this it was hard to tell that QEMU was not running locally.

This should be helped by the VNC encodings Tight, ZRLE, and for multimedia 
content (movies) the upcoming ZYWRLE encoding.

But I agree that your idea to reduce X communication makes tons of sense, 
since not everybody wants to use VNC.

Ciao,
Dscho