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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:21:43 +0100 From: Antoine Martin <antoine@...afix.co.uk> To: Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com> CC: Blaisorblade <blaisorblade@...oo.it>, devzero@....de, user-mode-linux-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [uml-devel] [RFC] UML kernel & rootfs bundle with every kernel release ? Jeff Dike wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:58:45PM +0100, Antoine Martin wrote: >> I reckon that one critical thing which could drastically increase the >> user base would be to have a working virtual framebuffer implementation. > > Why? I've never understood what a framebuffer gives you that you > don't have now. Just like the network auto-configuration via dhcp, it would allow users to download images+kernel and run them like appliances without understanding anything about X or UML, just click and run. We are all capable of setting up Xvfb here, but most users are not, which is why they download ready-made images. It would also make it a lot easier to focus on writing a management UI, hell if there isn't one shortly after, I'll do one myself! Think of a UML browser image (running IE via wine in a limited image with just X + wine + IE - I would much prefer that to having wine+IE installed locally), testing framebuffer apps like gtk-fb/cairo-fb without risking your dev environment, etc... Antoine - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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