From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39572) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCpBx-0005Vr-9J for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:24:50 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCpBw-0002w7-E6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:24:49 -0400 Received: from mail-pv0-f173.google.com ([74.125.83.173]:49670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QCpBw-0002w3-89 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 04:24:48 -0400 Received: by pvg3 with SMTP id 3so998065pvg.4 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:24:47 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DAFE37C.8090305@redhat.com> References: <4DAFE37C.8090305@redhat.com> From: Cheng Renquan Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:24:27 -0700 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How to use qemu-kvm with Fedora15-beta gnome3 (better vga driver ?) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 04/21/2011 05:40 AM, Cheng Renquan wrote: >> >> I'm trying to use qemu-kvm to run Fedora15-beta with gnome3, >> but it told me graphics hardware failed to run gnome3 specific >> features and it fallback to gnome2; > > Sorry, none of the cards provided by KVM (including the SPICE-specific QXL > card) currently provide the 3D acceleration abilities required by GNOME 3. Later when I tried VirtualBox I found VB video driver has such 3D acceleration abilities, but I just don't like VB style slow performance; Then are there some plans / possibilities to add more virtual graphics hardware drivers for qemu kvm ? Any specification to follow? Pointers for me to explore this way? cheng@cheng-tux ~ $ ls -lh /usr/share/qemu/vgabios* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35K Oct 14 2010 /usr/share/qemu/vgabios-cirrus.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 39K Oct 14 2010 /usr/share/qemu/vgabios.bin cheng@cheng-tux ~ $ file /usr/share/qemu/vgabios* /usr/share/qemu/vgabios-cirrus.bin: BIOS (ia32) ROM Ext. IBM comp. Video (70*512) /usr/share/qemu/vgabios.bin: BIOS (ia32) ROM Ext. IBM comp. Video (78*512)