Re: [gtk-vnc-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Optimizations for high-latency X connections

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico novell com>]

On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 19:46 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> >
> > It turns out that they were on a crazy setup with a high-latency remote
> > X connection.  My patches implement some tricks from TightVNC to handle
> > such connections:
> >   
> 
> Can I ask, why in the world is your Important Customer(tm) forwarding 
> gtk-vnc over SSH via X instead of doing VNC over X?  That would solve 
> all of these problems.

Hey, that's *their* crazy setup, not mine :)  Their setup is something
like

VM/Qemu -> over VNC -> virt-viewer -> over X11 -> over ssh -> X server

The VMs and virt-viewer run on the same physical machine.  They send the
X desktop where virt-viewer runs over a high-latency connection to an X
server --- remote locations contacting a central server.

I really don't know much detail (you know how big customers don't talk
directly to the hackers that could solve their problems, but to
half-technical suits instead? :), but they have some paranoid/misguided
security policy which requires them to run that way.  In any case it's
not something I can change.

Thanks for the patch review - I'll comment on each of your mails :)

  Federico