[Spice-devel] qxldod driver for Windows 11

[Victor Toso]

Hi Carlos,

On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 09:23:35PM +0000, Carlos González wrote:
> So the "rumors" are true: you (in general) really did
> discontinue/kill the qxl drivers, if not the entire SPICE
> project soon. Was it because IBM?  Since being sold to them the
> first one to die was Centos, now this...

This sums up the rationale:
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2030592#c4

> FYI:
> https://gist.github.com/pojntfx/b860e123e649504bcd298aa6e92c4043#file-main-sh-L32
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2021-January/001897.html
> virtio-gpu implies virgl, and currently only works on Linux guests;

Ah, yes you are correct.

> RedHat people explicitly deemed the Windows work "not worthy".

Well, I know for a fact that was not true for SPICE. Specifically
talking about virgl you can see Marek's talk to get a rough idea:

    Virgil and Windows: A True Romance - DevConf.CZ 2020
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBgYNDLXuyg

> Thanks for killing the project.

You can raise your concern to any company that might benefit
working on SPICE. It is open source. There are still people
interested to help and keep things working, but not quite to an
enterprise level (at the moment).

I'd honestly say that what kills an open source project is to not
have a healthy, diverse and collaborative community. I like to
think we have tried to have that.

Cheers,
Victor
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