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vmware(4)


NAME

   vmware - VMware SVGA video driver

SYNOPSIS

   Section "Device"
     Identifier "devname"
     Driver "vmware"
     ...
   EndSection

DESCRIPTION

   vmware is an Xorg driver for VMware virtual video cards.

MODESETTING, XINERAMA AND RANDR12

   If  the  driver  can connect to the "vmwgfx" kernel module on linux, it
   will attempt to use kernel modesetting and will then also  use  RandR12
   for  multiple output operation instead of Xinerama. The X server log or
   the "xrandr" application can be used to determine  whether  RandR12  or
   Xinerama is actually used.

3D ACCELERATION

   If  the  driver can connect to the "vmwgfx" kernel module on linux, and
   the Virtual Machine is set up to use 3D acceleration, the  driver  will
   try  to  use  Gallium3D XA to accelerate 3D operations. It will also by
   default enable DRI, the Direct Rendering Infrastructure, primarily  for
   accelerated  OpenGL.   If 3D acceleration is available, the driver will
   in addition provide an additional XVideo adaptor  for  textured  video.
   Gallium3D   XA,ibxatracker.so"   and  the  accelerated  OpenGL  driver,
   "vmwgfx_dri.so" is provided by the mesa distribution.

CONFIGURATION DETAILS

   Please refer to xorg.conf(5) for general configuration  details.   This
   section only covers configuration details specific to this driver.

   The driver auto-detects the version of any virtual VMware SVGA adapter.

   The following driver Options are supported:

   Option "HWCursor" "boolean"
          Enable or disable the HW cursor.  Default: off.

   Option "Xinerama" "boolean"
          Disable or enable Xinerama support. Default: xinerama is enabled
          if the hardware supports it.

   Option "StaticXinerama" "string"
          Provide a static xinerama geometry that will be active at server
          startup  and  will  not be overridden at runtime.  The format is
          "Width1xHeight1+Xoffset1+Yoffset1;Width2xHeight2+Xoffset2+Yoffset2"
          and  so on. Negative offsets are not supported. If the driver is
          using RandR12, this option should be used to  place  and  enable
          outputs  at driver startup time or else when VMware tools is not
          used for that purpose.  Also please see option "GuiLayout".

   Option "GuiLayout" "string"
          A synonym to option "StaticXinerama", since the latter  name  is
          somewhat misleading when RandR12 is favoured before Xinerarma.

   Option "AddDefaultMode" "boolean"
          Provide  a  default  mode  with  a  resolution  identical to the
          resolution of the guest before the X server was started.  The  X
          server  will  thus  try  to  start  without changing resolution.
          Default: on.

   Option "RenderAccel" "boolean"
          Try to  accelerate  render  operations  if  the  operations  are
          reading from previously accelerated contents (3D or video). This
          option is needed for 3D support. Default: on if 3D  acceleration
          is supported. Otherwise off.

   Option "DRI" "boolean"
          Enable  the  Direct  Rendering Infrastructure. Default: on if 3D
          acceleration  is  supported  and   "RenderAccel"   is   enabled.
          Otherwise off.

   Option "DirectPresents" "boolean"
          Speed  up  OpenGL swapbuffers by skipping a copy operation. This
          provides  some  OpenGL  swapbuffer  speedups,  but   may   cause
          performance degradation and rendering errors when 3D contents is
          read back for mixing with software rendered  contents.  Default:
          off.

   Option "HwPresents" "boolean"
          This is a developer convenience option and should not be used by
          distros or  normal  users.  When  enabled,  it  copies  software
          rendered  contents to a 3D surface before presenting it, so that
          the visible screen is always present on a 3D  surface.  Default:
          off.

   Option "RenderCheck" "boolean"
          This is a developer convenience option and should not be used by
          distros or normal users.  When  enabled,  it  tries  to  use  3D
          acceleration for all XRender operations where 3D acceleration is
          supported, resulting in  a  considerable  slowdown  due  to  the
          increased  number of readbacks of accelerated contents from host
          to guest. This option is used to  verify  that  the  accelerated
          Xrender   paths   works   correctly   with   the   "rendercheck"
          application. Default: off.

   SEE ALSO
          Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5), Xserver(1), X(7), xrandr(1)

AUTHORS

   Copyright (c) 1999-2007 VMware, Inc.



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