Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 1/1] Support for RDP

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange redhat com>]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 09:35:20PM +0200, Florian Vichot wrote:
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> >> Isn't 3D support implied by the type of graphics card emulated ?
> >> eg cirrus is a 2d only card, so it seems like 3Daccel is redundant.
> >> Similarly if the graphics model were a 3d card.
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> > true. no need for that.
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> Actually I believe there is. I think what was originally meant was
> whether the domain would be able to do real accelerated 3D using the
> host hardware, from the guest.
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> VBox provides an option to make 3D calls on the virtualized video card
> call the real 3D api of the host hardware, thus providing much faster 3D
> graphics in the guest.

Ah, that makes more sense. That sort of thing would be worth having
an explicit attribute for.

Daniel
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