Mesa's DRM Library Finally Builds VMWGFX By Default

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's DRM LIbrary Finally Builds VMWGFX By Default

While VMware's VMWGFX graphics driver has been deemed stable for months, only now with the Mesa DRM library is the driver support being built by default...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTE2Nzk

[uid313]

VirtualBox

I wish VirtualBox had support for hardware-accelerated 3D graphics.

With the VMWGFX virtual graphics device driver being open source, and allegedly of high quality. Can it be used for KVM/QEMU, Xen, VirtualBox?

[russofris]

With the VMWGFX virtual graphics device driver being open source, and allegedly of high quality. Can it be used for KVM/QEMU, Xen, VirtualBox?

Host support would have to be written. I do not believe the host portion of the stack is OSS.

Michael,

I noticed Fusion 5 was just released, but have not found a compelling reason to upgrade. For 49.99, I can either have "40% faster Graphics" or a bag of OG Purple Kush. If you upgrade, can you please write a quick comparison (between ver 4 and 5, and not between the OG and ver 5) so we know what we're missing?

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[elg2001]

Pretty sure the kush will win every benchmark