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    Phoronix: Kernel Mode-Setting Driver Comes To VirtualBox

    It looks like an upcoming advancement to Oracle VM VirtualBox is support for a kernel mode-setting (KMS) driver...

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    Originally posted by phoronix View Post
    Phoronix: Kernel Mode-Setting Driver Comes To VirtualBox

    It looks like an upcoming advancement to Oracle VM VirtualBox is support for a kernel mode-setting (KMS) driver...

    http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTAxOTk
    KMS would seem to put VBox one step closer to a possible Gallium3D pass-through driver, unless I'm mistaking things. Either way, even for 2D this sounds like a nice development.

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      Very cool. It's based on my glint KMS driver from GSoC 2010.

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