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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: approaches to 3D virtualisation
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To: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Juan Quintela wrote:
> Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>>> 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.
>>     
>
> I have zero clue of 3D, but for the qemu part, vmware_vga is the "nicer"
> driver.
>   

I like the design of the vmware_vga driver but it has one critical 
flaw.  The Windows drivers has a EULA that prohibits their use outside 
of VMware.

Without reasonably licensed Windows drivers, I don't think it's viable.

I'm hoping QXL can fill this niche.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori