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VMM-Independent Graphics Acceleration
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<!-- [DocumentBodyStart:43064b62-dce2-4f08-b4af-fb35b4093e69] --><div class='jive-rendered-content'><p>This paper describes VMGL, a cross-platform OpenGL virtualization solution that is both VMM and GPU independent. VMGL allows applications executing within virtual machines (VMs) to leverage hardware rendering acceleration, thus solving a problem that has limited virtualization of a growing class of graphicsintensive applications. VMGL also provides applications running within VMs with suspend and resume capabilities across GPUs from different vendors. Our experimental results from a number of graphics-intensive applications show that VMGL provides excellent rendering performance, coming within 14% or better of native graphics hardware acceleration. Further, VMGL’s performance is two orders of magnitude better than that of software rendering, the commonly available alternative today for graphics-intensive applications running in virtualized environments. Our results confirm VMGL’s portability across VMware Workstation and Xen (on VT and non-VT hardware), and across Linux (with and without paravirtualization), FreeBSD, and Solaris. Finally, the resource demands of VMGL align well with the emerging trend of multi-core processors.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><i></p><p>Authors: H. Andres Lagar-Cavilla, Niraj Tolia, M. Satyanarayanan, and Eyal de Lara</p><p>Date: June 2007</p><p></i></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2007/cs8803hpc_fall/lectures/16_VMMbypassIB.ppt">Please note there are slides to accompany this paper</a><span>|||||</span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/stray/vee2007.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/stray/vee2007.pdf</a></p></div><!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:43064b62-dce2-4f08-b4af-fb35b4093e69] -->
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