Re: Minimum system requirements for GNOME Shell

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Sat, 2010-12-25 at 10:47 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:

> Le vendredi 24 décembre 2010 à 23:30 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi a écrit : 
> > > * Minimum CPU configuration for software rendering mode under swrast
> > > and llvmpipe (useful for VMs)
> > 
> > no, that's not useful *at* *all*.
> > 
> > VMs should do a passthrough to the host GL implementation. if they
> > can't, swrast is not going to cut it in any case.
> 
> Well, none of the currently available virtualization solution does it
> correctly. Now what?

incorrect: GL passthrough in QEMU allows to run the MeeGo netbook user
experience, which is based on Mutter and Clutter, exactly like
gnome-shell:

http://wiki.meego.com/MeeGo_SDK_with_QEMU#Setup_QEMU-based_MeeGo_Emulator

creating an SDK image for gnome-shell using that as a base would not be
impossible.

also, VirtualBox supports GL passthrough, AFAIR.

in any case, virtualization is only interesting for an SDK, and for ease
of testing the new environment; as a requirement for running gnome-shell
it should hardly be a blocker.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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