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Aero compatibility (shadow paging, SMP, x86)

hellfire
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‎12-04-2010 10:05 PM
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I have implemented VMM with shadow paging. Works fine but there is a compatibility problem with Windows Aero.
When VMM is started with Windows Vista/7 x86 as a guest, the Aero stops to work (windows stop to be transparent). A message "The Desktop Window Manager has encountered a fatal error (0x8898009b)" appears in the event log.
Only SMP systems are affected, bug does not happen when guest OS is runned in UP mode.
I heard this is the common problem and major VM vendors have had to deal with it.
Can you suggest possible reasons of the problem?
Thank you!
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David_O_Intel1
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‎12-09-2010 02:19 PM
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I was told that Windows Aero requires 3D graphics support. QEMU VGA in virtual platform does not support Direct X, thus Aero is turned off.

David Ott

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hellfire
New Contributor I
‎12-14-2010 02:12 PM
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Several existing VMM implementations (VMware Workstation, Parallels, VirtualBox) are compatible with Aero.
What should be implemented in VMM to provide Direct X support?
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