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QXL driver for guests
Add QXL driver for virtual machines
Summary
Owner
- Name: Richard Jones
- email: rjones@redhat.com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 11
- Last updated: 2009-02-30
- Percentage of completion: XX%
Detailed Description
Current KVM-based virtual machines use an emulated Cirrus Logic graphics driver. This has numerous problems, the main ones being that it is slow and has a limited resolution. When Red Hat acquired Qumranet, we acquired a closed source protocol called QXL which removes these limitations, is highly optimized, and supports such features as on-the-fly compression of video streams. The plan is to fully open source this and include all the pieces in QEMU/KVM, libvirt, Xorg, virt-install and virt-manager.