On 19. 5. 21., Johannes Lundberg wrote: > Hi > > On 5/21/19 11:46 AM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >> On 19. 5. 21., Johannes Lundberg wrote: >>> Hi vbox folks! (cc: x11 list) >>> >>> According to this >>> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=virtualbox-60-vmsvga&num=1 >>> vbox can now use the vmwgfx kernel driver for accelerated graphics. With >>> that I assume that virtualbox's own drm driver project is scrapped. >> Actually, they moved vboxvideo KMS/DRM driver to Linux kernel. >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo > > It's been there for quite some time and no progress have been made for > the time I've been tracking it. Seems abandoned to me and my impression > is that that one is scrapped in favor of vmwgfx... Do anyone know if > vboxvideo is suppose to be in working state (the one in linux kernel)?
It was added to staging for almost two years ago. Please see the original patch submission. https://lwn.net/Articles/726355/ Recently they moved it out of staging (via merging drm-next-2019-05-09). https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=131abc56e1bacef23cb7b340519d36e2f5adb2a9 It means Linux 5.2 release will have it by default. It doesn't look dead to me. ;-) >> And DDX driver was moved to Xorg repository. >> >> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vbox >> >>> I've been working on porting vmwgfx from Linux to our linuxkpi. It works >>> pretty well with freebsd 13 as vmware guest on macos as long you're >>> using only one vcpu (some race condition issue to be solved..). It >>> would be cool if we could get accelerated graphics in vbox, with freebsd >>> as both host and guest since vmware can't run as host on freebsd. >> Can you please port the vboxvideo driver to linuxkpi? > > vmwgfx seems like the better choice if it's used by both vmware and vbox > (v6+). But if it's suppose to be in a working state I can take a look.. ... AFAIK VirtualBox graphics stack is in a working state. Jung-uk Kim
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