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<p>Hi Daniel,</p>
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<p>> We don't currently have any explicit representation of a video card</p>
<p>> device. The <graphics> tag is really representing the host I/O</p>
<p>> layer, covering video, mouse, keyboard (and potentially audio</p>
<p>> too).</p>
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<p>I didn't get you here? i mean there is a seperate virDomainSoundDefPtr, virDomainInputDefPtr, etc?</p>
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<p>> I think we need to add an explicit tag to represent video devices</p>
<p>> real soon. At very least we need to be able to indicate the type</p>
<p>> of video card - QEMU supports 4 already vga, cirrus, vmwarevga</p>
<p>> and xenfb. We probably also need to be able to indicate whether</p>
<p>> a video card supports multiple monitors / outputs, and the amont</p>
<p>> of Video RAM, etc.</p>
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<p>> One random idea would be to add</p>
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<p>> <video></p>
<p>> <model type='cirrus' ram='500'/></p>
<p>> </video></p>
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<p>does it means the graphics tag is no more and is replaced with video tag? or video tag is added in addition to graphics tag?</p>
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<p>in any case how about adding "multihead" and "3Daccel" to it and renaming ram to vram, something like this:</p>
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<p> <video></p>
<p> <model type='cirrus' vram='500' multihead='2' 3Daccel='yes'/></p>
<p> </video></p>
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<p>> I've not looked at this in huge detail yet. I'm wondering whether we need</p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> to expose it or not ? Is it something that's commonly used, or neccessary</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> to configure per VM ? For QEMU and Xen, the VNC auth type is jsut</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> configured per-host in the global Xen or libvirt QEMU config file for the</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> host. So we don't bother to expose it in the XML</span></p>
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<p><span style="color:#008000">> One idea might we to make the auth stuff a child element of '<graphics>'</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#008000">> so we don't start adding huge numbers of attributes to the main elemnt</span></p>
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<p>Yes it per VM feature and generally exposed by any RDP server, so not specific to VirtualBox, but a general case. i think the earlier mail give details of it.</p>
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<p>regarding the child element it is ok to have it as child element.</p>
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<p>Regards</p>
<p>Pritesh</p>
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