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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