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Posted Nov 25, 2011 17:51 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: SPICE by nix
Parent article: The first GNOME Boxes release

Uhm. You're missing something. VMWare has working 3D virtualization for a few years.

Aaaaand it's open source! And even mainlined.


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SPICE

Posted Nov 25, 2011 18:39 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

vmware open source??

I know they had some flavors that were free of charge for individuals, but I didn't know they had anything that was opensource. do you have a pointer to this?

SPICE

Posted Nov 25, 2011 18:43 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

VMWare is definitely NOT open source, but its 3D acceleration architecture is.

Look at vmwgfx driver in Linux and corresponding 'SVGA' driver in Gallium3D in userland.

SPICE

Posted Nov 26, 2011 16:58 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Er, yeah, it may have, but VMWare != spice. :)

SPICE

Posted Dec 2, 2011 9:50 UTC (Fri) by robbe (guest, #16131) [Link]

This 3D virtualization only works locally, not over the network. I don't know whether there is much code reuse possibility for SPICE or similar protocols.

If it were that easy, VMware itself would already offer it for their View product.

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