Wow thanks for that information, I was wondering what the QLX driver
support was all about!
That clears up another mystery!

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Aram J. Agajanian <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> In GNOME 3.4, there will be a new app called Boxes which is designed for
> desktop virtualization.  It uses libvirt which manages KVM, Xen,
> and VirtualBox VMs.  It also supports KVM USB redirection.
>
> KVM has support for the QXL virtual GPU architecture.  QXL doesn't
> currently support 3D (with a DRM kernel module implementing DRI2).
> VirtualBox and VMware already have this.  I know that Red Hat is working
> on 3D but it I don't believe that it be available in the first half of
> 2012.
>
> In Fedora 17, the llvmpipe X.org driver will be used for video hardware
> that doesn't have DRI2 support in the kernel (like QXL). This will
> allow GNOME 3 on Fedora 17 to run in a KVM VM.  If other distros use
> the llvmpipe driver, they also can get 3D support in KVM.
>
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