http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/30/virtual-virtual-virtual-fragging en-us 40 Anil Madhavapeddy <p>An oft-cited criticism of virtualisation is that 3D hardware acceleration doesn't work, preventing you from enjoying your hard-earnt game of Quake 3. Rumours abound that <a href="http://www.parallels.com/">Parallels</a> is <a href="http://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/08/20060808153337.shtml">developing</a> it for its software, and that VMware is doing something in this area as well.</p> <p>However, thanks to the <a href="http://code.google.com/soc">Google SoC</a>, the power of open-source itching, and the talented <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/">Andrés Lagar-Cavilla</a>, Xen now has support for 3D acceleration as well! Check out the <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~andreslc/xen-gl/">xen-gl</a> web-page with screenshots, or just clone <a href="http://hg.recoil.org/xen-gl.hg">xen-gl.hg</a> and get hacking!</p> <p>Rather than getting down and dirty with foreign grant mappings, PCI pass-through and all that malarky, Andres adopted for the more pragmatic approach of packetising OpenGL using the <a href="http://chromium.sourceforge.net/">Chromium</a> project, and creating an <a href="http://x.org/">x.org</a> module to correctly position the resulting OpenGL. End result: hardware rendering in a guest domain, without requiring any extra hardware privileges. Awesome to the max!</p> Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:35:00 +0100 urn:uuid:bca4b2e9-6e80-4436-849e-e7873cf07903 anil@recoil.org (Anil Madhavapeddy) http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/2006/08/30/virtual-virtual-virtual-fragging research xen http://anil.recoil.org/blog/articles/trackback/99