Re: [Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

2012-05-24 Thread Marc-André Lureau
Hi - Mensaje original - > Sorry to ""disappoint"", I think it's very interesting to spice, wddm > drivers are userspace and so easier to debug and required for windows > 8 > support. > > Some googling: > http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowshardware/Kernel-mode-display-only-49adea58 > >

Re: [Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

2012-05-24 Thread Alon Levy
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:12:10PM +0200, Mario wrote: > Alon, > > I just took a look into the MS documentation about the WDDM DriverEntry code > etc. It seems the pointer sturcture of a wddm driver has to implement a lot > of functions to be a valid wddm driver. Unfortunately I found nither > det

Re: [Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

2012-05-24 Thread Mario
Alon, I just took a look into the MS documentation about the WDDM DriverEntry code etc. It seems the pointer sturcture of a wddm driver has to implement a lot of functions to be a valid wddm driver. Unfortunately I found nither detailed documentation about wddm drivers (except the function re

Re: [Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

2012-05-21 Thread Alon Levy
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:47:05AM +0200, Mario wrote: > Alon, thank you for your reply. Does this mean there is a bigger step to > support Windows 8? Yes. We need to write a new driver, WDDM one, will probably share much code between it and the current driver. > > > On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:26:1

Re: [Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

2012-05-21 Thread Mario
Alon, thank you for your reply. Does this mean there is a bigger step to support Windows 8? On Mon, 21 May 2012 11:26:11 +0300, Alon Levy wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:04:36AM +0200, Mario wrote: Gentlemen, i just tried to compile the latest qxl driver (cloned from GIT) for Windows 8. T

Re: [Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

2012-05-21 Thread Alon Levy
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 10:04:36AM +0200, Mario wrote: > Gentlemen, > > i just tried to compile the latest qxl driver (cloned from GIT) for Windows > 8. The first suprise was the fact that Microsoft introduced a dependency of > having 4 GB Visual Studio installed to use the latest WDK. > > Howeve

[Spice-devel] QXL on Windows 8

2012-05-21 Thread Mario
Gentlemen, i just tried to compile the latest qxl driver (cloned from GIT) for Windows 8. The first suprise was the fact that Microsoft introduced a dependency of having 4 GB Visual Studio installed to use the latest WDK. However the "dirs" file has been converted perfectly. Additional there