"Jeffrey B. Siegal" wrote:
>
> Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > Either the VGA emulation (yep it's slow), or a
> > guest OS driver could communicate with a plugin to handle video/audio.
>
> VGA emulation is slow, but emulation of some accelerated hardware (particularly
> one chosen based on its efficiency for emulation need not be slow.
>
> Pick the right hardware to emulate and you don't need special guest drivers for
> each OS, because the drivers already exist.
This is also possible. I'd have to see how the interface works to
know how fast emulation would be. This would be good for OSes
with no special driver written. Though, a special driver should
be more efficient.
Any of these options, VGA emulation, other video card emulation, or
use of a special driver should all communicate via the same interface
(ulimately using SDL).
If anyone wants to code emulation of another video card, please
do. One of the considerations however is the video BIOS.
-Kevin
