On Sun, 23 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.
Correct, VMware works without DGA, but most people likely use it
with DGA. I never thought of that, and am not entirely sure how
DGA works...
>Of course, if you use VMWare, you propably use X.
Certainly. Good point.
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