> 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 > --
There hasn't been a lot of discussion around this topic, but I am interested in seeing how viable it is. Depending on the costing side of things it may be something I could sponsor if someone was up to doing the work. Thanks, Geoff _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
