>> I guess, write a VESA VBE 2/3 - compatible BIOS and load it with the
>>BIOS loading plugin. I don't have any experience with VESA... but I
>>believe SciTech
>> used to write such (commercial) implementations.
>
>well, I was wondering if I could get away with implementing a VESA VBE
>2/3 compatible bios by means of a plugin only (thus not writing any bios
>code that gets loaded into guest memory, but just provide a plugin that
>registeres an int 10h callback - except for possible functions that
>would require bios provided buffers this might be possible, but I don't
>know if it would be desired to do this in such a way).
Well, that should be possible, I'm not sure whether it desirable
(performancewise), because then every int 0x10 invocation means a switch from
guest to host (slow).
-- Ramon