[Spice-devel] [spice-server] doc: Add virgl documentation

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 05:36:04PM +0100, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
> 
> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 17:18 +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 03:28:41PM +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 02:57:18PM +0100, Pavel Grunt wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > 
> > > > Acked-by: Pavel Grunt <pgrunt at redhat.com>
> > > > 
> > > > On Fri, 2016-03-18 at 17:12 +0100, Christophe Fergeau wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > +GL acceleration (virgl)
> > > > > +=======================
> > > > > +
> > > > > +OpenGL acceleration is currently local only (it has to go
> > > > > through a
> > > > > Unix socket)
> > > > > +and it needs guest support. It's currently limited to recent
> > > > > linux
> > > > > +distributions (for example up to date Fedora 23).
> > > > > +
> > > After running more tests, I realized that on a f23 guest, you need
> > > to
> > > update mesa from Gerd's copr, I'll have to adjust the wording here.
> > I"ll change it to
> > 
> > -distributions (for example up to date Fedora 23).
> > +distributions (for example up to date Fedora 23 + updated mesa
> > packages from
> > +copr:kraxel).
> 
> I would keep up to date Fedora 23. Mesa should have virgl support -
> see http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=739036 

But it seems these are good enough, when I tested this, Xorg was picking
the QXL driver, which gave me a blackscreen with the f23 packages. With
packages from kraxel's repository, the correct driver was picked up, and
I could get a working guest display. Which is why I want to mention them
now ;)

Christophe
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