Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU Video Driver for Win NT-based systems

[Grzegorz Kulewski]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Filip Navara wrote:
> I was just think about something like that. If there would be a QEMU 
> support for receiving OpenGL commands using some easy protocol and 
> passing them on the underlying host OpenGL implementation (should be 
> possible with some SDL support), then it will not be hard to make an 
> OpenGL driver for Win NT+ using it. Making a DirectX (here I refer to 
> Direct3D mainly) driver would possible using such interface, but it 
> would be major pain. It would be propably easier to use Wine DirectX 
> implementation that converts the requests to OpenGL...

I was thinking about using some DirectX to OpenGL emulator too (maybe from 
wine but this is probably not complete and, as I know wine, will never 
be). I heard that Direct3D was cleaned up somewhere about 8-9 version so 
that is can be converted to OpenGL so maybe somebody already did this?


Grzegorz Kulewski