[vbox-dev] wddm driver

[Mikhail Sennikovsky]

  Yes, we're planning to complete the 64-bit wddm driver version right 
after we're done with the 32bit one.

On 9/21/2010 6:59 PM, Liang Suilong wrote:
> Now the latest code of vbox support aero theme in vista & win7 32bit 
> guests. How about 64bit win7 guest? Is it also coming soon?
>
> VirtualBox 3.3 is amazing!
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Mikhail Sennikovsky 
> <mikhail.sennikovsky at oracle.com 
> <mailto:mikhail.sennikovsky at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     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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