On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Jeffrey B. Siegal wrote:
> Colin Davidson wrote:
> > 2) Create a standard psuedo-device for each Guest OS, then punt the actual
> > drawing to
>
> Choice 3), which I have suggested before, is to choose a
> widely-supported (and efficiently emulatable) video device and emulate
> that.
Is that ever going to be as efficient as emulating some theoretical
hardware that is optimised for virtualisation? Perhaps the best all round
approach would be to have multiple plugins for plex86 - one which emulates
some common gfx card, which would be the most "compatible" and another
which was performance optimised but required specific drivers to be
written for the guest OS. The latter seems to be the (somewhat succesful)
approach that has been taken by vmware.
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