Comment 5 for bug 925405

Revision history for this message
mmu_man (revol) wrote : Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 925405] Re: VNC server does not work with Mac Screen Sharing

On 01/01/2017 17:55, Rui Carmo wrote:
> Hey there. Will git tip from September do? At that time I built QEMU on
> Ubuntu 16.04.1, pointed my Mac (10.10) at it again and had the same
> experience (had to use a third-party client)
>
> Considering I opened this four years ago, I'm kind of surprised it's
> still a talking topic. Was kind of expecting more people to report it,
> but then again Launchpad is a bit off the beaten path these days and
> most people just sigh and fetch a third party client.
>
> It's just that it seems like a trivial thing to fix overall, so I
> thought it worthwhile to chime in - Happy New Year!
>

For what it's worth, it's a bug in Apple's client which despite them
claiming to "use the industry standard VNC" (whatever that means)
clearly violates the VNC specs by replying with a boggus protocol
version number.

I told them 5 years ago but it's not like they care about respecting
standards...

François.