From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJOKj-0003Uc-Dx for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:32:13 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NJOKe-0003Qi-6S for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:32:12 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47611 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NJOKe-0003Qd-0w for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:32:08 -0500 Received: from mail-iw0-f197.google.com ([209.85.223.197]:56947) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NJOKd-0000x4-Nm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:32:07 -0500 Received: by iwn35 with SMTP id 35so1031969iwn.4 for ; Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:32:07 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970912111800o40594363r1c7d60c7dbcb7f3c@mail.gmail.com> References: <21d7e9970912111758m6805a24clca16f237624ffc59@mail.gmail.com> <21d7e9970912111800o40594363r1c7d60c7dbcb7f3c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:32:07 +1000 Message-ID: <21d7e9970912120132rd5709d1r3add6a7284eb8c33@mail.gmail.com> From: Dave Airlie Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: approaches to 3D virtualisation List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org >> >> Current existing solutions in the area: >> a) VMware virtual graphics adapter - based on DX9, has an open >> KMS/Gallium3D driver stack recently released by vmware, has certified >> Windows drivers and has a documented vGPU interface (it could be >> documented a lot better) http://vmware-svga.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vmware-svga/trunk/doc/gpu-wiov.pdf?revision=1 is a good whitepaper on the different 3D virtualisation approaches and why vmware picked what they did also. Dave.