[vbox-dev] wddm driver

[Mikhail Sennikovsky]

  You're right, we already have a kind-of working wddm driver for 32bit 
Vista & 7. The major advantage of wddm driver is that no system files 
replacement is needed any more and thus no safe mode guest addition 
install is required. Also Aero theme can now be enabled in guests.
The major concern so far is performance and we're working on it.
Alexey Eromenko already gave you a brief explanation on how guest 3d 
works. I can only add that wddm driver still uses wined3d internally and 
translates d3d requests to opengl commands being passed to host via 
"Chromium".

Mikhail

On 9/21/2010 4:43 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>
> I keep seeing commits going into SVN regarding a WDDM driver for 
> Windows? It looks like it is getting quite a bit of attention, is that 
> right?
>
> Another note, when doing 3D generation, is it using the host's 
> graphics card?  If so, how does that work when multiple virtual 
> machines are running at the same time?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Geoff
>
>
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