Alexey, On Thursday 31 December 2009, Alexey Eremenko wrote: > On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Geoff Nordli <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does anyone have any clues on the amount of effort to implement the new > > graphics cards. > > > > From the spice dev list their comment on integrating spice into vbox: > > > > "The spice server is design to be easily used by 3rd party. You need to > > expose vd_interfaces in the hypervisors side (see > > http://www.spice-space.org/docs/vd_interfaces.pdf) and libspice will plug > > into those interfaces. QXL (the GPU) is relay simple and can also be > > added to other hypervisors and so benefit from having a common driver. > > And last thing the hypervisor need to be under GPL licance in order to > > use libspice legally." > > Since VirtualBox userland is similar to Qemu, it should be possible to > port it. After all, VirtIO was ported from Qemu over here.
Sorry, but this is wrong. It is possible to port drivers/devices from Qemu to VirtualBox but the VirtIO stuff was definitely _not_ ported from Qemu but written from scratch. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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