rfc/headsup: graphics driver packaging in F16+

[Adam Jackson]

On 4/13/11 11:02 AM, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> On 04/13/2011 03:10 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> On 4/13/11 9:09 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>
>>> ... should we work on making qemu/kvm default to something more
>>> modern/sane?
>>> (qxl, vmware?) Does it not end up mattering (or do we need cirrus for
>>> legacy OS support)?
>>
>> It ends up being a function of the guest OS - vmware's Windows driver
>> will refuse to run on anything but vmware's hypervisor, etc - which
>> means that's really more of a virt-manager question.
>
> Hm, odd. When i switch from cirrus to the vmware display driver it seems
> to work quite nicely here on my box (RHEL-6 host) and Xorg.log.0 clearly
> shows it using the vmware driver in the guest, too. And i'm pretty sure
> we didn't do any hacks in RHEL-6 to make this work specifically as the
> default was and is cirrus driver (as limited as that may be).

I said "vmware's Windows driver" for a reason.

- ajax