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Add QXL driver for virtual machines


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== Detailed Description ==
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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.


== Benefit to Fedora ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==

Revision as of 17:54, 30 January 2009

Feature Name

Add QXL driver for virtual machines

Summary

Owner

Current status

  • Targeted release: Fedora 41
  • Last updated: (DATE)
  • 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.

Benefit to Fedora

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How To Test

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