Guest OpenGL Acceleration

Guest OpenGL Acceleration

[Gordan Bobic]

Is OpenGL Acceleration based on the host's OpenGL capability available 
in KVM?

Thanks.

Gordan

Re: Guest OpenGL Acceleration

[Pantelis Koukousoulas]

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Gordan Bobic<gordan@bobich.net> wrote:
> Is OpenGL Acceleration based on the host's OpenGL capability available in
> KVM?

No.

The Virtualbox code for that is open though (uses chromium like VMGL) in case
you 'd like to port it to qemu/kvm :)

Re: Guest OpenGL Acceleration

[Armindo Silva]

There's a patch for qemu:

http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2984

and there's also this:

http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/projects/7

I think this is used by vbox.


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:49 AM, Pantelis Koukousoulas <pktoss@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Gordan Bobic<gordan@bobich.net> wrote:
> > Is OpenGL Acceleration based on the host's OpenGL capability available in
> > KVM?
>
> No.
>
> The Virtualbox code for that is open though (uses chromium like VMGL) in case
> you 'd like to port it to qemu/kvm :)
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Re: Guest OpenGL Acceleration

[Gordan Bobic]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:02:18 +0100, Armindo Silva <deathon2legs@gmail.com>
wrote:
> There's a patch for qemu:
> 
> http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2984

Interesting, and along the lines of exactly what I was after (including the
opengl32.dll win32 library). But that thread is from 2+ years ago, and no
mention of whether the project is maintained. Does it work with the KVM
virtualization back end for QEMU?

> and there's also this:
> 
> http://sysweb.cs.toronto.edu/projects/7
> 
> I think this is used by vbox.

No, vbox seems to use something very similar to the approach in the first
link you posted.

Gordan