Re: Accelerated graphics in vbox 6

Jung-uk Kim <[email protected]> Tue, 21 May 2019 15:13:30 -0400
Newsgroups	gmane.os.freebsd.devel.x11
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
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. ;-)

>> 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
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