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= Drivers for VMware virtual graphics =
This page is under construction. More information will follow shortly.

== Drivers ==
The Xorg graphics driver for the VMWare virtual graphics- and mouse devices consist of

 * xf86-video-vmware - The video driver. Driver binaries are vmware_drv.so and vmwlegacy_drv.so
 * xf86-video-vmmouse - The mouse driver. Driver binaries are vmmouse_drv.so
 * The kernel video driver - vmwgfx. This currently resides in the kernel staging tree and should not be activated outside developer environments.
 * The new experimental xorg video driver. vmwgfx_drv.so Intended to support 3D graphics and kernel modesetting. Needs the kernel vmwgfx driver. Currently experimental and resides in the mesa tree.

== Maintainer ==
VMware currently maintain these drivers. The maintainer email is <thellstrom-at-vmware-dot-com>, but that may shortly change to a mailing list or mail alias. Patches touching the driver should have an Acked-by: or Signed-off-by: from the maintainer, and new releases are cut by the maintainer only. Please send patches and release requests to the xorg-devel mailing list with a CC to the maintainer email.		 [[vmware|Please go to the vmware page]]

Please go to the vmware page