From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Izik Eidus Subject: Re: Supporting Nvidia and ATI Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:46:52 +0200 Message-ID: <4737784C.7060809@qumranet.com> References: <76bfae930711110846s60e87f55n528679423df09875@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Ghiora Drori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <76bfae930711110846s60e87f55n528679423df09875-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Ghiora Drori wrote: > Hi, > I am interested in supporting NVDIA, ATI, Intel and presumably other > display cards when running a windows guest KVM. The idea is to get > Windows XP games to work properly under kvm when being hosted by Linux. > The screen on Linux can have more then one X windows server running on > different TTYs and it looks (I have not checked the code) like each is > running separately (aka there is a store and initialize when switching > between them) so when a kvm guest would get such a screen it would > have direct access to the display hardware. > I searched Google but did not find anything significant. > Any ideas where to start? > Thanks Ghiora > you cannot do it like this, the x system use driver and use the hardware how it want after using the driver, but what you can do is: writing a windows driver for the guest that will emulate a 3d video card and then writing a device for qemu that will exploit some of the host 3d graphics video card gpu for this emulated card, but this really is not simple at all ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/