[ros-dev] GPU testing machine is ready!

[Colin Finck]

Hi all!

A picture says more than a thousand words:

  http://fs5.directupload.net/images/170613/u4d8a59a.png

As promised in the last meeting, I have brought to life a machine for
testing GPU drivers with real GPUs under ReactOS. It combines a QEMU
virtual machine with PCIe GPU Passthrough together with a KVM-over-IP
card for feeding the real video signal back to a window.

What you see in the screenshot is a real NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GPU
attached to a ReactOS VM. We can now test the NVIDIA driver installation
while enjoying the easy debuggability of a VM.
My first report is already out: https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-13423

Every developer interested in working on this can drop me a line and I
will send you credentials for the server.
Soon I will also add an AMD Graphics Card along with another KVM-over-IP
card to let us debug the other big driver package.

Thanks go out to Mr. Kromdijk for the generous server donation,
Christoph for the KVM-over-IP card, and Hervé for the QEMU hints!

Let's all get some flashy 3D acceleration into ReactOS!! :)

Cheers,

Colin