Re: [Xen-devel] Accellerated windows graphics drivers

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:40:29AM +1100, James Harper wrote:
> Has anyone ever seriously thought about implementing a 3d acceleration
> driver for windows (or linux too I guess)? I imagine that you would need
> the following components:
> 
> 1. a windows frontend driver that handles directx calls from Windows and
> puts them on a ring for the backend
> 2. a linux backend driver that gets these requests and passes them to a
> userspace application
> 3. a special linux X xen console driver (eg not VNC) that handles these
> requests and converts them to GL calls
> 
> Doesn't sound like a particularly small job...
> 

I think wine can already do this.. ie. convert d3d calls to GL calls. 

Maybe this is interesting too: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/

"VMGL: OpenGL Hardware 3D Acceleration for Virtual Machines"

-- Pasi

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