VGA Hardware: Difference between revisions

TheEven though VGA is a complex piece of hardware. Even though it's old, many modern graphics cards are compatible with it, including NVidia and ATI cards. This can make writing a VGA driver rather attractive. The amount of compatibility varies however, so never assume a card is compatible without proper hardware detection.

Apart from real machines, several emulators and virtual machines provide VGA emulation: [[Bochs]], [[QEMU]] and [[Microsoft Virtual PC]] to name a few. After 2011 video card manufacturers begun to drop VGA compatibility in favour of [[GOP]] under [[UEFI]] (VirtualBox UEFI and TianoCore both supports that).