On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 01:02:08PM +0100, Oliver Gerlich wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. > > > > 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. -- Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty. Infinite precision begets infinite perfection. _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel