[virglrenderer-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Provide the means to inject info about the host GL into a qemu guest

[Dave Airlie]

On 13 June 2018 at 19:03, Gert Wollny <gert.wollny at collabora.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> this is a reworked proposal to make it possible to obtain information about
> the host GL and virglrender version from within the guest. The series doesn't
> require any changes to the guest version of virgl or to qemu. Instead it
> provides the means to inject this information into the guest system by using
> smbios OEM strings.

Interesting idea, I'd like to know what the qemu devs think of this approach.

The having an external program and having to have qemu call it seems
like it might be a bit restrictive, though it does mean we don't have to change
qemu to get the info in the guest, which is nice.

Dave.