-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:41:31PM -0800, [email protected] wrote: > Is there any info available when Qubes will officially support Windows > 8/8.1/10? > > Or is that not work in progress right now?
In practice there is no progress on this. Since the code is open source now, everyone can help us here. There are two main areas: 1. Make the tools (without gui-agent) compile for Windows 8/8.1/10 - this is probably very simple, or not needed at all. Maybe just disabling gui-agent during tools installation is enough (without need to recompile at all). Then qrexec should work, which means support for: clipboard operations, file copy, network setup etc. 2. Make gui-agent working in non-seamless mode. This will probably require some code changes. Rafał - could you briefly describe what is needed here? AFAIR current gui-agent (especially video driver) rely on API no longer present in Windows 8+. We've invested a lot of time in researching proper seamless-mode support using new Windows video driver architecture (WDDM). Proper support means extracting composition buffers of each window separately, instead of cutting them from "full desktop image". We hoped to manage this by implementing virtual GPU driver, but ultimately failed mostly because of quality of documentation for part of driver API. The best we've got is a driver which didn't failed at load time, but at the same time didn't get any screen assigned... So, I think proper seamless mode for Windows 8+ is a lost cause for now. But non-seamless mode support should be quite easy. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJYbty+AAoJENuP0xzK19csQkEH/j0BG7sSiP4KooCDkk4hovUG WvNAknCkRFxK/48XIn7jMV5m5od17TuNqgfLMfrLMa11GA29YJ/gEthhrmaN3eZM BHwXzPLWNaqONyUoX0rOYcpoOdvnyonfIUz3usIE+DVykTKGFMwaDH4Mut9zsFtu C9IjXWYDLl8FSSJSPKi0xv+0GB6U/ByeSxCZy6JTDy66i4y16FJIPlT4LEq2coAd DeQxs5aSAdrVZt1VLeSetkRfKrAAV/Nv7lOogGp8TdrwybiuOwT4G7gOxwvEYq4p qw2xJYz8i9Z4HgaSVO3LMajb/kbKgF4E6/s0opR4QTfSW6auJk7+qGU4UWSv4LA= =DPWt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/20170105235438.GK5268%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
