Re: [Qemu-devel] QEmu as a Device Software Optimization tool

[Even Rouault]

On Thursday 26 July 2007 18:34:36 Paul Borman wrote:
> Paravirtualization - I have written a "device driver" for QEmu that  
> allows the guest system to essentially make function calls right into  
> the host (dealing with data representation, etc).  A prime example  
> for use of this is OpenGL.  OpenGL is pretty much done in hardware  
> these days, and most embedded devices do not use X11 as a graphics  
> system.  By providing an OpenGL library on the target OS that  
> basically calls straight into the hosts OpenGL library it should be  
> possible to greatly increase the performance of the target without  
> having to try and export the real graphics hardware into QEmu.  Along  
> with this I have done the necessary work to allow QEmu to use dlopen
> () to load in arbitrary shim layers to libraries.

As far as OpenGL is concerned, I don't know if you have already looked at it, 
but you may be interested by my OpenGL patch. Even if it uses a specific 
guest <--> host communication hack, this may save you the quite tidious 
process of serializing/deserializing OpenGL calls between guest and host.
For more details, see : http://qemu-forum.ipi.fi/viewtopic.php?t=2984