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VMware Preps To Push More Mainline Kernel Code

phoronix.com: To further enhance the Linux virtualization experience with VMware products, the company is preparing to push the Virtual Machine Communication Interface and VMCI Sockets into the mainline Linux kernel...

VMware Virtual GPU Driver Gets Fake Page-Flipping

phoronix.com: After thoroughly testing the VMware graphics driver stack yesterday and providing benchmarks, there's some new "vmwgfx" developments to report on...

VMware Merges "vmwgfx_branch" To Master

phoronix.com: Here's a heck of a Christmas present if you happen to be a VMware customer and use their virtualization software with Linux guests where the desktop experience is important: vmwgfx_branch has finally been merged to master! This merge touches over 16,000 lines of code in their X.Org graphics driver...

VMware Graphics Prepare To Leave Staging Area

phoronix.com: The VMware developers working on their "vmwgfx" graphics driver for Linux on their virtualization platform are preparing to have this driver leave the kernel's staging area and formally move into the Linux kernel DRM tree as one of the stable, mainline graphics drivers.

VMware Releases The XA Gallium3D State Tracker

phoronix.com: Hurra! A new Gallium3D state tracker was just released! But it's not the state tracker for OpenCL support, VDPAU or VA-API encoding/decoding, or anything else like that, but rather it's for something new: the XA State Tracker. This state tracker provides a new means of X.Org Acceleration (hence the "XA" name) and was developed by VMware...

VMware To Overhaul Their Virtual Graphics Driver

phoronix.com: Two weeks ago I extensively talked about VMware's Linux graphics driver used by their virtualization products. To provide graphics hardware acceleration support within VMware guest instances, they have an elaborate (and open-source) driver stack complete with the upstream kernel DRM module and a Gallium3D user-space driver.

VMware Goes For Mainline Inclusion Of Its DRM

phoronix.com: VMware is preparing to propose that its "vmwgfx" DRM kernel driver be pushed into the mainline DRM tree and in turn will then be pulled into the mainline Linux kernel -- as soon as the Linux 2.6.33 kernel. VMware's Jakob Bornecrantz (formerly of Tungsten Graphics) is calling for comments on the two patches that introduce the vmwgfx C header file and then the Direct Rendering Manager code itself.

VMware Releases Its New Gallium3D Driver

phoronix.com: Last Friday during the Gallium3D workshop we learned that the Tungsten Graphics developers that were bought out by VMware have been working on a virtual Gallium3D driver that would be used by guest operating systems running within VMware's virtualization platform.

VMware Provides Open-Source Virtualization Viewer

phoronix.com: While VMware's virtualization platform has been popular with many Linux users, its entire virtualization infrastructure has been closed-source. This though may change to some extent. VMware has announced the release of View Open Client, which is an open-source program to view VMware-hosted virtualized desktops.

VMware Acquires Tungsten Graphics

phoronix.com: There seemed to have been little buzz generated by this announcement when it first came about, but Tungsten Graphics has been acquired by VMware. They were acquired in late November for undisclosed terms and their only news mention of this acquisition is below (from their website)...

VMWare VMI Enters Kernel

phoronix.com: In the 2.6.20 kernel we were presented with KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtualization, and now in the Linux 2.6.21 kernel will mark the introduction of VMWare's VMI into the Linux upstream kernel. VMWare's kernel component will allow for para-virtualized operating systems to run within virtual machines.