On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Nelson Rush wrote:
> Speaking of X Windows, here is an interesting idea...
>
> Instead of trying to map the video card to the guest operating system or
> hack at it some other way you could just run X Windows and xhost the
> localhost on the guest. Install an X server on the host operating system and
> then you trap the guest X Window messages over a loopback and display it on
> the host. Surely this would be a better method, and much faster.
Simplier, but probably is not faster, especially for direct framebuffer
addressing. It's supposed to run everything, including dos apps and
other rare os'es, not just windows..
> So, to run
> MS Windows as the guest you'd need to install an X server on it. Maybe that
> defeats the purpose, I don't know. But, IMHO Plex86 shouldn't have to worry
> about the video card. Of course, there is also VNC which is based off of the
> X Windows protocol and I think it gets better mileage.
>
> http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
>
Oh, vnc is slow!
> If you're going to decide to map the video card memory instead, there is
> going to be very noticeable latency. And as you pointed out there are
> disadvantages to virtualizing the VGA access.
>
well, if the majority doesn't like this idea.. nevermind.
Uhus
