3D acceleration support for VBox guests

[Sander van Leeuwen]

This ticket is used to track development of 3d acceleration support.

I have committed my initial OpenGL guest support to the public SVN tree:

• ​http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/HostServices/SharedOpenGL
• ​http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk/src/VBox/Additions/WINNT/Graphics/OpenGL

Current status:

• communication framework between guest and host is present
• simple OpenGL samples are functional; they display their rendered output in an external window on the host for testing purposes)
• supported are only Windows guests combined with a Windows host
• not all OpenGL commands are implemented; most simple ones are

Plans:

• Linux host and guest OpenGL support
• Add OpenGL extensions as reported by the host OS
• Direct3D emulation using OpenGL

We are looking for external developers with an interest to help us out to complete this work.