Feature Requests item #1865886, was opened at 2008-01-07 13:47
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Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: VMGL (formerly Xen-GL) implementation in MESA

Initial Comment:
VMGL (formerly Xen-GL) implementation in MESA?

Feature request:
Would it be possible to implement VMGL (formerly Xen-GL) into MESA to enable 
OpenGL Hardware 3D Acceleration for Virtual Machines?

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/

OpenGL apps running inside a Virtual Machine (VM) can use VMGL to take 
advantage of graphics hardware acceleration. VMGL can be used on VMware guests, 
Xen HVM domains (depending on hardware virtualization extensions) and Xen 
paravirtual domains, using XVnc or the virtual framebuffer. Although we haven't 
tested it, VMGL should work for qemu, KVM, etc. VMGL is available for X11-based 
guest OS's: Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. Finally, VMGL is GPU-independent: 
we support ATI, Nvidia and Intel GPUs.

Would be great if MESA featured this function nativly. 

Currently licensed under the Modified BSD licence but I sure they would 
consider re-licence or dual-licence if the MESA project requires it.





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Comment By: Gamester17 (gamester17)
Date: 2008-12-18 06:36

Message:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NjkzOA

VirtualBox Gets OpenGL Acceleration Support

Sun Microsystems has announced the release this morning of VirtualBox 2.1
with several enticing additions.

The hardware-accelerated OpenGL support is deemed experimental in
VirtualBox 2.1. OpenGL support is only exposed to Windows XP and Windows
Vista 32-bit guests at this time, but support for other platforms is
expected in the future. Additionally, Sun Microsystems also has plans for
supporting DirectX acceleration of guest operating systems in a future
release. All the guest OS needs to do is install an OpenGL driver for what
is recognized as a virtual hardware device that in turn communicates
with the host's GPU.

The complete change-log for VirtualBox 2.1 (along with download links) can
be found at VirtualBox.org
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

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