A Virtual Gallium3D Driver Coming For VMware

Posted by phoronix on Nov 14, 2009 12:50 AM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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It was almost exactly one year ago that VMware acquired Tungsten Graphics, but now their motives behind that acquisition are becoming more clear. Being hosted at VMware's headquarters today in Palo Alto, California was a Gallium3D Workshop, where various open-source Mesa developers are currently at and others connecting remotely. At this workshop it has just been announced that a "virtual" GPU driver for Tungsten's Gallium3D driver architecture will soon be publicly released. This Gallium3D driver that will be able to run within VMware guests should be quite interesting, since thanks to the design of Gallium3D, will be able to leverage the existing state trackers.

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