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Re: [News] Project May Enable OpenGL Acceleration in Linux VMs

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:52:18 +0100,
 Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> OpenGL Hardware 3D Acceleration for Virtual Machines
>
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>| OpenGL apps running inside a Virtual Machine (VM) can use VMGL to 
>| take advantage of graphics hardware acceleration. VMGL can be used
>| on VMware guests, Xen HVM domains (depending on hardware
>| virtualization extensions) and Xen paravirtual domains, using
>| XVnc or the virtual framebuffer. Although we haven't tested it,
>| VMGL should work for qemu, KVM, etc. VMGL is available for
>| X11-based guest OS's: Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. Finally,
>| VMGL is GPU-independent: we support ATI, Nvidia and Intel GPUs.
> `----
>
> http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/

Now that's pretty interesting. VMWare guest images for XGL equipped
Linux "livecd" to impress your friends. 


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