Even if you write a driver, wouldnt you still need to emulate the hardware?
VMWare uses drivers for its emulated SVGA card to allow for resolutions higher
than 640x480.
"Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
> X-Odus wrote:
> >
> > as far as I can tell the GUI stubs for Bochs and FreeMWare are identical...
> > so it should work on both.
>
> We should be able to maintain an identical interface, set
> of guest OS drivers, etc, between the 2 projects.
>
> For video, ultimately I'd like to see special Windows
> (and other OS) video drivers which communicate to code
> outside the VM via some efficient protocol, rather
> than going through emulation of video hardware.
>
> >From you video mavens out there, I'd like to know
> what kinds of video operations would need to be
> in such a protocol, such that they could be turned
> into display directives for X11, Windows, RFB,
> etc.
>
> -Kevin
