VirtualBox DRM Driver Gets Patches To Go Atomic, Promote Out Of Staging

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VirtualBox DRM Driver Gets Patches To Go Atomic, Promote Out Of Staging

We've known Red Hat was working on converting the VirtualBox "vboxvideo" DRM/KMS driver to using the atomic APIs for atomic mode-setting to replace the legacy APIs and now those patches are out there...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Virtual-DRM-Atomic-Patches-Out

[RickXy]

That's an interesting take. Given that Red Hat had a lot of investment put into KVM and Libvirt. Maybe the cross-platform aspect of VBox got them to change their mind.

[Xaero_Vincent]

Now they just have the much harder task of getting Vbox video driver to the same quality and GL/ES API exposure of SVGA II and Virglrenderer.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

GL/ES API exposure of SVGA II and Virglrenderer.

Does VirtualBox itself support utilizing host's OGL/ES?

[hansdegoede]

My work on the VirtualBox *guest* drivers is purely to give Fedora (and Linux in general) a better OOTB experience when installed as a VirtualBox guest. The reason for this is that many people first dip their toe into the waters of running Fedora using a VM and VirtualBox is a popular choice for doing this. This really is no different from how we support running as a guest under e.g. HyperV.

For running a vm under Linux you should absolutely use KMS + libvirt, through e.g. boxes or virt-manager.

And sorry I've no plans to work on VirGL or some-such for VirtualBox.

[Terrablit]

Thanks again for all your work, hansdegoede! You're submitted several patches that have made my life easier.

[pal666]

That's an interesting take. Given that Red Hat had a lot of investment put into KVM and Libvirt. Maybe the cross-platform aspect of VBox got them to change their mind.

lol, considering subj is about guest drivers, maybe missing kvm on windows got them to not change their mind?

[michael-vb]

Once again, many thanks to Hans for his excellent work.

[cybertraveler]

For running a vm under Linux you should absolutely use KMS + libvirt, through e.g. boxes or virt-manager.

Is it just as easy to setup virtual networks with boxes/virt-manager as it is with VirtualBox?

With VirtualBox they've made it super easy to add adapters to virtual machines and connect them to your real network or a virtual one. It's all nicely documented too.

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Is it just as easy to setup virtual networks with boxes/virt-manager as it is with VirtualBox?

Check "virt-manager virtual networks" image search in Google.