Thanks a ton, I plan to try this out right away. - Rian On Oct 15, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! > > On 09/25/2014 06:52 PM, Rian Quinn wrote: >> I have been doing a lot of work with LibDRM, including Multi-Monitor work on Intel and VMWare. Do you guy’s know if there is an easy way to tell VMWare to add more virtual display’s for testing? LibDRM reports something like 8 different connectors, and several CRTCs, so I know it at least supports Multi-Monitor, I’m just not sure how to tell the hypervisor to enable more than one for testing. >> >> I’m sure this is a question for a better list, but I figured I cannot be the only one interested in working with LibDRM on VMWare. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> - Rian > > Sorry for the late reply. There's an ioctl you may use to set the GUI > layout: DRM_IOCTL_VMW_UPDATE_LAYOUT > (which would in real hardware correspond to plugging in a set of > monitors and arranging them). That ioctl is currently reserved for the > master and the Xorg driver is using it if you need a code example. I > haven't tested for a while, but it should be possible to have up to > eight different virtual "displays" in a single VMware GUI window. > > One caveat is that you might need to manually set the number of displays > and their max sizes from the VMware GUI to make sure you get enough VRAM > to back the displays. > > /Thomas > > >> _______________________________________________ >> dri-devel mailing list >> dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
