On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno(a)wolff.to> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 16:19:22 +0300,
Elad Alfassa <elad(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> However, "hardware accelerated graphics" shouldn't be in the minimal -
> people will still run Workstation on VM platforms where it's unavailable,
> eg. KVM/spice, we don't want them to think it's impossible to run our own
> OS on our own virtualization platform.
> I think it would make more sense for "Hardware accelerated graphics" to be
> in the recommended section.
>
If you are using software for graphics you need a powerful CPU to make the
system usable. That is an odd combination on real hardware. So I think for
a recommendation it makes sense to suggest hardware graphic acceleration
for workstation. I think the running it as a VM on one's desktop is an
outlier case.
Running in a VM on a desktop is actually a very important usecase. We're
targeting developers after all, developers might develop to our platform
and test in a vm when running our platform or when running another platform.
--
-Elad Alfassa.