On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Brandon Gooch wrote:
On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Sean C. Farley <[email protected]> wrote:
Here is a patch that adds 2D acceleration. I am not sure if the
VirtualBox_LIBS.freebsd line is needed or not, but it does not cause
any apparent regressions. I tested this with the Nvidia driver, and
it shows improvement within the VM. I do not know how other drivers
will work. EXA may be required over XAA.
If the patch does not make it through the mailing list filter, it can
also be found here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~scf/virtualbox-2daccel.patch
Sean
I assume that many of us here in the FreeBSD user community would love
to have improvements regarding speed of an already GREAT
virtualization platform in VirtualBox; Would it be possible to
quantify this improvement?
I did not perform any test to truly quantify it. However, applications
(games :)) that use DirectDraw within the VM are noticeably faster. For
example, the mouse pointer lags a lot less in higher resolutions such as
1280x1024. Unfortunately, there is still some sluggish behavior
exhibited.
Overall, I prefer running with it enabled as opposed to without it.
Also, I assume that patch can be applied to the current port, and
rebuilt as usual to gain these improvements, correct?
It should. The patch patches the port's Makefile and adds a new patch
file for use during the building of the port.
Just remember to check "Enable 2D Video Acceleration" in the
configuration of the VM in question.
Thank you for submitting this!
You are welcome.
Sean
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