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[Andreas Pokorny]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 4:55 AM, Daniel van Vugt <
daniel.van.vugt at canonical.com> wrote:

> Here's an observation: Two out of the top three hottest [1] Mir bugs are
> Mir failing to start (USC/Unity8) due to insufficient graphics drivers:
>
> Running in a VM:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1118903


Is this really about running mir or unity8 in a VM? Both kvm and vmware
support enough of drm/kms to run mir.
I am not sure how far virtual box is with its drm/kms support. Two years
ago some parts were missing. Maybe
virtual box could also use qxl + spice for that purpose? But back to the
statement, I think there is a bigger problem
with running ubuntu on systems without shader support and lack of cpu to
use llvmpipe to compensate that. Those systems
are likely to have drm support.

regards
Andreas
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