I never used virtualbox on solaris, it's definitely slower than vmware
esxi.
On 2015-07-02 16:46, Simon via smartos-discuss wrote:
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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