Ahh! so just make an emulated card that just passes all data to the Native OS.
And let the Driver for the emulated OS decide what gets sent out to the OS.
Is this right then? But what about occasions like DOS that dont have graphics
drivers?
what then?
"Kevin P. Lawton" wrote:
> X-Odus wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> You make up the hardware spec yourself. In which case, you
> could decide to pass info to the emulated video card in
> whatever way you want.
>
> What I'm wondering, is if it makes sense to ever rasterize
> pixels in the driver. Why not pass primitives to the
> pseudo card, and then pass them on to X11, Windows, etc
> to display.
>
> -Kevin
