From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 30 07:31:06 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C288B106564A for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:31:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xorquewasp@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D53C8FC19 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:31:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xorquewasp@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so4206243ewy.43 for ; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:31:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:date:from:to:cc :subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=l3Cu7fzBHSgvKQObqCGup0cOAuhs/iOB3qUAEO2R5m4=; b=bXNzLQJizfnSonf319KsARl2loScL6NT2uVUp3rTAA9ZIMiTJlrCMdwu/JHjSZ7ku0 VqxdIJPQSnBmCIBPAu8Fve3aoT3EpGtqm5wQaJNSuufHQG62r9ZU0d+bxNtbogBI7GJ8 aWF+J51KsHYu8pnHABLq60KkLTyrOBY+/d66Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to; b=Fj36LoZBUhC8gQivgGaMVqfLkLtr7Jcj4ytnxbYYIjrCBJDWvsz6l3yINrKU2sf/Qa C4H0UpPU/FCK4INQ6NV82pOxdQbe2Ar5qvVgfRxURnjayhu+4tlA9yki2JTn7odTmV9c DELforaQNZjPO10TF2+kEL2xBpBTWkIV2mQO4= Received: by 10.210.81.9 with SMTP id e9mr726579ebb.68.1246347065416; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:31:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from logik.internal.network (geeshaulage.lcdsl.co.uk [62.249.247.223]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 12sm13300158ewy.55.2009.06.30.00.31.04 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:31:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: by logik.internal.network (Postfix, from userid 11001) id D3DBE5D59; Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:31:02 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:31:02 +0100 From: xorquewasp@googlemail.com To: Roland Smith Message-ID: <20090630073102.GB68638@logik.internal.network> References: <20090629191417.GA2907@logik.internal.network> <20090629213408.GA9127@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20090629215904.GA68638@logik.internal.network> <20090630001311.GA13398@slackbox.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090630001311.GA13398@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:31:07 -0000 On 2009-06-30 02:13:11, Roland Smith wrote: > > The page says it does. Forgive me for being cynical but after countless experiences, I rarely believe such statements any more! > > Virtualbox + VMGL seems the most likely candidate at the moment - > > From the abovementioned page: "VMGL is available for X11-based guest OS's". > > > I'm just not sure if it's currently stable at all. > > At version 0.1.1, I wouldn't expect too much. > > OpenGL is just a display mechanism. If the calculations feeding the > display have to be run in an emulator, this will slow your program down > considerably. Well, I'd be running with virtualization extensions as my CPU supports them and I'd think that OpenGL commands being passed from a VM straight to the graphics card via this system shouldn't incur too much overhead. > If your program on the guest OS is already written for X11, can't you > port it to FreeBSD? Or run it natively and transport the output to your > FreeBSD box via X11? If I'd written the program, it'd already be running on FreeBSD natively, you've got my word on that. Unfortunately it's old and, of course, proprietary. xw