Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 12:29:52 -0700 From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD X11 <x11@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Accelerated graphics in vbox 6 Message-ID: <8ce731b1-2f03-820e-125a-102f3592f464@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <c021b0dc-b909-cca7-8d7f-9bb61c23e32b@FreeBSD.org> References: <4a697e5a-8ecc-cda9-6f80-3e78d09c924f@FreeBSD.org> <874a0def-1e1e-971b-ae65-4e700295a9e9@FreeBSD.org> <d2bc45b6-171d-01d9-4962-ab4665111003@FreeBSD.org> <c021b0dc-b909-cca7-8d7f-9bb61c23e32b@FreeBSD.org>
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On 5/21/19 12:13 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On 19. 5. 21., Johannes Lundberg wrote: >> Hi >> >> On 5/21/19 11:46 AM, Jung-uk Kim wrote: >>> On 19. 5. 21., Johannes Lundberg wrote: >>>> 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. >>> Actually, they moved vboxvideo KMS/DRM driver to Linux kernel. >>> >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo >> It's been there for quite some time and no progress have been made for >> the time I've been tracking it. Seems abandoned to me and my impression >> is that that one is scrapped in favor of vmwgfx... Do anyone know if >> vboxvideo is suppose to be in working state (the one in linux kernel)? > It was added to staging for almost two years ago. Please see the > original patch submission. > > https://lwn.net/Articles/726355/ > > Recently they moved it out of staging (via merging drm-next-2019-05-09). > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=131abc56e1bacef23cb7b340519d36e2f5adb2a9 > > It means Linux 5.2 release will have it by default. > > It doesn't look dead to me. ;-) Oh great! It's finally made it's way out of staging :) Hmm, but that makes the vmwgfx move even more confusing.. Why would they support both?... > >>> And DDX driver was moved to Xorg repository. >>> >>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vbox >>> >>>> 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. >>> Can you please port the vboxvideo driver to linuxkpi? >> vmwgfx seems like the better choice if it's used by both vmware and vbox >> (v6+). But if it's suppose to be in a working state I can take a look.. > ... > > AFAIK VirtualBox graphics stack is in a working state. > > Jung-uk Kim >
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