Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 10:26:02 -0700 From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun@FreeBSD.org> To: vbox@freebsd.org Cc: FreeBSD X11 <x11@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Accelerated graphics in vbox 6 Message-ID: <4a697e5a-8ecc-cda9-6f80-3e78d09c924f@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi vbox folks! (cc: x11 list) According to this https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=virtualbox-60-vmsvga&num=1 vbox can now use the vmwgfx kernel driver for accelerated graphics. With that I assume that virtualbox's own drm driver project is scrapped. I've been working on porting vmwgfx from Linux to our linuxkpi. It works pretty well with freebsd 13 as vmware guest on macos as long you're using only one vcpu (some race condition issue to be solved..). It would be cool if we could get accelerated graphics in vbox, with freebsd as both host and guest since vmware can't run as host on freebsd. Do you have any idea what would be required to get the host side of things working? Will it work automagically if the freebsd host has a drm driver loaded or do we need to port some code form linux/ to freebsd/ within virtualbox? I'm happy to work together with you and put more effort into getting vmwgfx running stable in vmware/vbox if we can get host side of things working in vbox 6. Cheers! /Johannes
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