“For the past few years VMware has been improving the graphics acceleration support that is available via their virtualization platform. VMware — through their 2008 acquisition of Tungsten Graphics — has effectively re-written their graphics driver for their virtual “SVGA II” GPU to take advantage of the Gallium3D driver architecture, a new acceleration architecture, and many other improvements. This work has finally come together and is now working rather nicely.”
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