Re: Minimum system requirements for GNOME Shell



Le samedi 25 décembre 2010 à 10:40 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : 
> > Well, none of the currently available virtualization solution does it
> > correctly. Now what?
> 
> incorrect: GL passthrough in QEMU allows to run the MeeGo netbook user
> experience, which is based on Mutter and Clutter, exactly like
> gnome-shell:
> 
> http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_SDK_with_QEMU#Setup_QEMU-based_MeeGo_Emulator

Given how GLX is designed (in short: giant root security hole), that
basically means giving root access on the host to any user on the guest.

It’s nice to see efforts in this direction, but I stand on my position:
no currently available solution does it *correctly*.

On a related but different side of affairs, good luck getting GNOME
Shell to work on a thin client, as well. As soon as you have a bit of
network latency, AIGLX is not usable, and other solutions like VirtualGL
are merely insecure hacks to cope with the absence of accelerated
offscreen rendering support on Linux.

Cheers,
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