[Xen-users] Re: 3D acceleration

[Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> is running i.e. linux
>  in a domU and using http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/
>  for GL-applications to run those on the graphiccard attached to
>  dom0.
> I actually need multi-threaded D3D support.
> (But OpenGL is useful for other apps)

Yah, I don't support D3D or Windows (and that is very unlikely to happen 
in the future). You can always try to stack D3D on top of OpenGL with 
wine, but that's unlikely to perform decently (or provide multi-threading.)
> What does "at the moment" mean? Is this a planned feature, or even 
already
> in development?

> It's dependent on the video chipset manufacturers publishing specs,
> such as ATI just did. (Yay, ATI.).

I disagree, it depends on people porting the 3D API's to virtual 
machine-friendly libraries, which is what vmgl (old xen-gl) does.
ATI releasing the specs is a promising step for enabling open-source 
drivers. But from my p.o.v. that only means we'll get robust xen dom0 
drivers, instead of hacking the few parts of the driver that are visible 
and praying. Providing 3D accel to domU's is another business.
My two cents
Andres

_______________________________________________
Xen-users mailing list
Xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users