[Spice-devel] qxl and page flip

[Justin Forbes]

On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 5:40 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:
>   Hi,
>
>> Would not actually be possible to detect a destroy + create
>> commands and avoid having to change any version/driver?
>
> Well, that would be option (3) of the original mail:  Make the spice
> client hide this.  Basically not go into "no display" mode instantly
> after destroy-surface, but wait a bit to see whenever it is followed by
> a create-surface command.
>

One thing to consider here. Anything that requires a host change is
going to leave some existing users broken. Some of the reports we have
seen on Fedora were quick to point out that virtio-vga wasn't an
option because they were running on CentOS or other older hosts.

Justin