On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 02:38:50PM +0200, Max-Wilhelm Bruker wrote:
> of defining new protocols? I hate installing the VMWare tools in VMWare.
> We could also run some other guests, such as BeOS, without thinking of
> drivers
> then.
It'd be pretty slow, though. What vmware seems to do (this is a guess,
but it seems like a decent way to do it) is to emulate a special PCI
device that talks to X/DGA on the host via some magic.
I imagine that you can map the emulated device memory directly to
a DGA buffer and get some good speed out of it all. Sure, you need
to install special drivers for it, but it's worth it.
Perhaps you can do the same thing and present an existing video
card interface, so that you don't need special drivers, but
I don't know enough about low-level video programming and DGA.
- Frank
