On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:34:41 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I'm curious, however, about my Gentoo VMs. Can KMS run on a VM's > > kernel and do anything useful there? This is more for learning and > > not about any practical need at this time. > > From my understanding, this topic gets yucky. There's a whole bunch of > ways this could be done, from software emulation to para- > virtualization to full virtualization. Emulation is easy - KMS in the > guest sees what looks for all the world like hardware so everything > works if KMS supports the emulated card (albeit slowly).
However, it can't get a list of supported display resolutions from the "monitor" so it is fair to say it works in a VM, for some definition of "works". -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 19: Passive aggression
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