Re: [Qemu-devel] approaches to 3D virtualisation

2009-12-15 Thread Avi Kivity
On 12/14/2009 02:03 PM, Paul Brook wrote: [3] Obviously if you emulate lame hardware like ne2k or IDE then performance will suck. However emulation of a high-end NIC of SCSI HBA should get within spitting distance of virtio. Practically the only difference performance-wise between virtio a

Re: [Qemu-devel] approaches to 3D virtualisation

2009-12-14 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Mark Williamson wrote: > There may be an option c) in existence. The OpenTC project (EU funded) > included a secure UI project and part of that involved a prototype > paravirtualised 3D driver. It was done primarily by a research assistant at > Cambridge University Compute

Re: [Qemu-devel] approaches to 3D virtualisation

2009-12-14 Thread Paul Brook
On Saturday 12 December 2009, Dave Airlie wrote: > So I've been musing on the addition of some sort of 3D passthrough for > qemu (as I'm sure have lots of ppl) IIUC a typical graphics system consists of several operations: 1) Allocate space for data objects[2] on server[1]. 2) Upload data from cl

Re: [Qemu-devel] approaches to 3D virtualisation

2009-12-12 Thread Mark Williamson
On Saturday 12 December 2009 01:58:02 Dave Airlie wrote: > So I've been musing on the addition of some sort of 3D passthrough for > qemu (as I'm sure have lots of ppl) > > But I think the goals of such an addition need to be discussed prior > to anyone writing a line of code. > > Current existing

[Qemu-devel] approaches to 3D virtualisation

2009-12-11 Thread Dave Airlie
So I've been musing on the addition of some sort of 3D passthrough for qemu (as I'm sure have lots of ppl) But I think the goals of such an addition need to be discussed prior to anyone writing a line of code. Current existing solutions in the area: a) VMware virtual graphics adapter - based on D