RE: [Qemu-devel] re: native gfx card support

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi!

> Basically the main thing I know about gfx support is that it 
> should be way faster to support native cards (I've got a 
> GeForce 4 MX 64MB DDR in my 1 Ghz iMac, for instance) instead 
> of emulating a card.  That's why I was curious if qemu will 
> do this, as VPC7 will supposedly do.  I'm not trying to rush 
> the qemu devs or anything, I have no idea how long things 
> like that would take to implement.

Is a good idea but with a very difficult problem.
For making this VPC7 will use a kernel driver.
If qemu wants to make the same will have to write a driver for Linux,
another for Win32, another for MacOS X, another for FreeBSD, another for
<put here your favourite HOST system>.

Is the eternal question: Performance vs. Portability