From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 29 21:03:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB00E1065674 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:03:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wy0-f182.google.com (mail-wy0-f182.google.com [74.125.82.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BB248FC22 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so41358wya.13 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:02:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=yHWimVBaCpjUO8d+TAD5blCi4w/STNrR3oOmZzflc9w=; b=Ttsk3oC/A/60ppGszs///Anqx4ZMVBCiMjj78J7Ut3SPVpW+28AVeT2HL908eHy8qq NrhAG/sInGuvVuVtMcw3VVEJ7qShraMI5+wNMV5W0EKY0g5QdEp2l097ufdVg5U0SafV 4fHhDePx4VZ19sZvxP29nO62ClaEe3EtXn3M0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fx9zwlOACiRWnQxlPsQe6i3tSnWaz2Y65MU/zgs0vyURIZvVJjs6xhsXPA6xuNIrtJ kwetxWUWleM7uMuyWiyRkknLPdfhCMXaspDd8mWsMQCgv77k7LZsSAmeNFGYXTeHxWnc TYRMyziODfkZ1TA61gIYv5E7yaQXLSxgzyPRs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.138.76 with SMTP id z12mr2113708wbt.60.1285794179250; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.133.133 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 14:02:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:02:59 -0500 Message-ID: From: Brandon Gooch To: "Sean C. Farley" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VirtualBox 2D acceleration X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:03:01 -0000 On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Sean C. Farley 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