Hi,

Would you say that the performance is lower than what you would see under 
VirtualBox on Solaris?

Thanks

On Jul 2, 2015 9:36 AM, Jorge Schrauwen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The guests will see a generic vga adaptor (from the web): 
> "With -vga std you can get a resolution of up to 2560 x 1600 pixels." 
> [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU] 
>
> From my experience the performance is not great, but is usable for 2D 
> stuff. 
>
>
>
> On 2015-07-02 15:26, Simon via smartos-discuss wrote: 
> > Hi Robert, 
> > 
> > I was referring to giving a KVM guest access to the GPU. 
> > 
> > What I'm trying to determine is if I ran KVM guests (Windows, Linux) 
> > if they would 'see' the virtual GPU providing 3D functionality. 
> > 
> > I'm not expecting the virtual GPU to be able to play 3D games or run 
> > Photoshop but wanted a snappy desktop experience. 
> > 
> > Thanks 
> > 
> > SD 
> > 
> > On Jul 1, 2015 10:59 PM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: 
> >> 
> >> On 7/1/15 13:28 , Simon Davis via smartos-discuss wrote: 
> >> > Hi, 
> >> > Does SmartOS support 3d acceleration for guests? 
> >> 
> >> There's a couple different things you could be looking here, so it's 
> >> important to take them each apart. First I'm going to assume you're 
> >> referring to KVM guests, if not, then I apologize. 
> >> 
> >> On this front, there are two different things you might want to do or 
> >> be 
> >> referring to. The first is the act of using the local keyboard, video, 
> >> and mouse with a guest. The second is to give a hardware virtualized 
> >> guest a GPU through PCI device assignment. We don't support either of 
> >> them. 
> >> 
> >> Does that address what you were looking to do? Is there something else 
> >> you wanted to do? 
> >> 
> >> Thanks, 
> >> Robert 
> >> 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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