On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:44 PM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote: > Jun, > > On Thursday 18 December 2008, Jun Koi wrote: >> I am wondering why VB doesnt use the original video devices from QEMU >> (cirrus, vmware, vga), but it has its own PCI video device? What are >> the differences with QEMU video devices? > > Our VGA device is based on the Qemu code but we improved the performance. > In contrast to Qemu, VirtualBox knows a so-called 'raw mode', that is, > as many code as possible is executed in the guest context. Even parts of > the device emulation (including VGA).
Interesting! How much is that faster than the original QEMU device? Do you have any number? Thanks, Jun _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
