VMware SVGA II Adapter

VMware SVGA II Adapter is a disk. This product is available from VMware. The VMware SVGA II Adapter has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.

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SilverStone EC03 USB 3.0 PCI-E Adapter: If you're wanting to pick-up a USB3-enabled drive enclosure like the SilverStone TS07 or RVS02 (or any other USB 3.0 peripherals), but don't have any USB 3.0 ports on your system, the SilverStone EC03 can provide two USB 3.0 ports from a PCI Express x1 slot.

Gallium3D XA State Tracker Merged To Master: Thomas Hellstrom of VMware has just merged to Mesa master the XA Gallium3D State Tracker that we previously talked about on Phoronix...

VMware's Gallium3D Driver For Virtualization: Brought up several times in our forums and elsewhere over the past few days has been VMware's Gallium3D driver that they use for guest 3D acceleration on their proprietary virtualization platform...

Encore 802.11n PCI Wireless Adapter: While wireless chipsets are not as complicated as graphics processors, under Linux they can cause just as many headaches when it comes to getting them working reliably. More hardware vendors have opened up to supporting their wireless chipsets under Linux, but still it can be a pain having to hunt down the firmware for a wireless adapter, needing to build an out-of-tree driver, having issues with the driver such as with WEP/WPA authentication, or if all else fails trying to get the Windows driver working under Linux through ndiswrapper.

VMware's KMS Driver With QEMU: Recently we have been talking a lot about VMware's Gallium3D driver that they recently released along with DRM code that does support kernel mode-setting and allows this new 3D driver to function under their virtualization platform. By running this Gallium3D driver on the guest operating system of their VMware virtualization platform, it's possible to leverage the GPU hardware acceleration on the host not only for OpenGL acceleration but for areas of other state tracker coverage like OpenCL, OpenVG, X-Video / X11, and more.

VMware Releases Its New Gallium3D Driver: 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.

MediaLink 802.11g Wireless USB Adapter: When setting up my new office recently one of the test machines wound up being a distance away from the rest of the systems and the wired network. Rather than going through the hassle of dropping a CAT-6 line to this test station, the quicker and easier approach was to just pickup another USB WiFi adapter.

A $15 USB 802.11g WiFi Adapter For Linux: If you've been looking for a very affordable USB WiFi adapter that works with Linux, you may be interested in the Encore ENUWI-G2. This 802.11g WiFi adapter has a USB 2.0 interface and supports 64/128-Bit WEP, WPA, and WPA2. What makes this USB WiFi adapter to some though is its price-tag, which is less than $15 USD at many online retailers.

QEMU 0.9.1 Released, With New Features: QEMU, an open-source processor emulator, is out today with a new release. QEMU 0.9.1 introduces just under two dozen changes and is just under a year since the release of QEMU 0.9.0. Among the new changes in QEMU 0.9.1 include TFTP booting from host directory, monitor multiplexing to several I/O channels, CPU model selection support, support for MIPS 64-bit FPU and MIPS64, SVM x86 virtualization capabilities, strace for Linux user-land emulation, and VMware SVGA II graphics card support.