On Sat, Jul 22, 2000 at 03:52:53PM -0400, you [Mike A. Harris] claimed:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Ville Herva wrote:
>
> >> XFree86
> >
> >X, dosemu and VMWare.
>
> X does, however DOSemu does not need direct access necessarily.
> It depends on how it is configured, and what you need it to do.
>
> VMware creates a virtual hardware environment which is
> implemented by talking to linux device drivers. No linux driver,
> no hardware in VMware. I do not believe VMware touches the
> hardware directly for anything, at least not according to them.
How is DGA implemented in X? Doesn't that allow the app to talk directly
to the video card? VMWare uses that, although it is not necessary for
VMWare to work.
Of course, if you use VMWare, you propably use X.
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