Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:02:59 -0500 From: Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com> To: "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox 2D acceleration Message-ID: <AANLkTikkHGkCJaF9qtGsggEwF1P_axshUY3Afp-N-vk7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009252014010.37904@thor.farley.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009252014010.37904@thor.farley.org>
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On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Sean C. Farley <scf@freebsd.org> wrote: > Here is a patch that adds 2D acceleration. =A0I am not sure if the > VirtualBox_LIBS.freebsd line is needed or not, but it does not cause any > apparent regressions. =A0I tested this with the Nvidia driver, and it sho= ws > improvement within the VM. =A0I do not know how other drivers will work. = =A0EXA > may be required over XAA. > > If the patch does not make it through the mailing list filter, it can als= o > be found here: http://people.freebsd.org/~scf/virtualbox-2daccel.patch > > Sean I assume that many of us here in the FreeBSD user community would love to have improvements regarding speed of an already GREAT virtualization platform in VirtualBox; Would it be possible to quantify this improvement? Also, I assume that patch can be applied to the current port, and rebuilt as usual to gain these improvements, correct? Thank you for submitting this! -Brandon
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