Accelerated graphics in vbox 6

[Johannes Lundberg]

On 5/21/19 12:13 PM, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> On 19. 5. 21., Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On 5/21/19 11:46 AM, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
>>> On 19. 5. 21., Johannes Lundberg wrote:
>>>> Hi vbox folks! (cc: x11 list)
>>>>
>>>> According to this
>>>> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=virtualbox-60-vmsvga&num=1
>>>> vbox can now use the vmwgfx kernel driver for accelerated graphics. With
>>>> that I assume that virtualbox's own drm driver project is scrapped.
>>> Actually, they moved vboxvideo KMS/DRM driver to Linux kernel.
>>>
>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/vboxvideo
>> It's been there for quite some time and no progress have been made for
>> the time I've been tracking it. Seems abandoned to me and my impression
>> is that that one is scrapped in favor of vmwgfx... Do anyone know if
>> vboxvideo is suppose to be in working state (the one in linux kernel)?
> It was added to staging for almost two years ago.  Please see the
> original patch submission.
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/726355/
>
> Recently they moved it out of staging (via merging drm-next-2019-05-09).
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=131abc56e1bacef23cb7b340519d36e2f5adb2a9
>
> It means Linux 5.2 release will have it by default.
>
> It doesn't look dead to me. ;-)

Oh great! It's finally made it's way out of staging :)  Hmm, but that
makes the vmwgfx move even more confusing.. Why would they support both?...


>
>>> And DDX driver was moved to Xorg repository.
>>>
>>> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vbox
>>>
>>>> I've been working on porting vmwgfx from Linux to our linuxkpi. It works
>>>> pretty well with freebsd 13 as vmware guest on macos as long you're
>>>> using only one vcpu (some race condition issue to be solved..).  It
>>>> would be cool if we could get accelerated graphics in vbox, with freebsd
>>>> as both host and guest since vmware can't run as host on freebsd.
>>> Can you please port the vboxvideo driver to linuxkpi?
>> vmwgfx seems like the better choice if it's used by both vmware and vbox
>> (v6+). But if it's suppose to be in a working state I can take a look..
> ...
>
> AFAIK VirtualBox graphics stack is in a working state.
>
> Jung-uk Kim
>