Re: [Qemu-devel] Graphic card

[Jim C. Brown]

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:02:08PM +0100, Oliver Gerlich wrote:
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> Mike Swanson schrieb:
> > 4. It sounds reasonable, but it undermines one of QEMU's goals:
> > running guest operating system without modification (and drivers
> > certainly count as one). Also, it'll possibly limit the number of
> > operating systems you'd run in QEMU with fancy graphics...
> > implementing Cirrus makes it possible to run many OSes with no (or
> > few) video problems, including Windows 95, Win NT 4, almost every
> > GNU/Linux, almost every BSD, Solaris, Darwin, Plan 9, QNX, DOS, BeOS,
> > etc.
> > 
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> So, I think we shouldn't dismiss the possibility of a special Qemu
> graphics card (and driver). The Cirrus card (and -std-vga) should still
> be available for those systems where the Qemu graphics driver is not
> available, while the users who run a wide-spread, recent system as guest
> can have faster graphics.
> 
> Just my two cents,
> Oliver Gerlich

There is (or was) work on a qemu-specific opengl library. It didn't require
any special hardware - just a guest-side driver and some patches to qemu.

It'd accomplish the same effect as a custom driver, but perhaps more easily.

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