Re: [Xen-users] Xen handling of graphics card

[Jean-Eric Cuendet <jec@xxxxxxxx>]

> Obviously, with a Xen-aware graphics driver, it would be possible to
> solve both of these problems. It is, however, not entirely trivial to
> write such a driver for a decent modern graphics card. Trust me, I used
> to work for 3DLabs as a driver developer, the source code for 2D side of
> the driver is several megabytes, and the 3D parts of the driver are MUCH
> larger than that. And I think an nVidia or ATI driver is even larger -
> at least the binary is... 
So if I understand well, to solve that we need a Xen driver (the same 
way VMWare does) that is then used by Windows. I understand that well.
IMO, accelerated graphics is not high priority, if the card can just be 
shared by 2 domU OSes (Linux + Windows) with decent perf (like VMWare) 
then Desktop with Xen is near.
Hope someone with knowledge wil do that soon!
Anyone to sponsor me to develop this? :-)
Thanks for your great answers.
-jec

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