Venus on QEMU: Enabling the new virtual Vukan driver

Posted by mfilion on Nov 26, 2021 7:08 PM EDT
Collabora Blog; By Antonio Caggiano
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Running graphics applications on a virtual machine can be annoying as they are generally greedy of computing resources, and that can slow you down or give you a bad experience in terms of graphics performance. Being able to accelerate all this by offloading the workload to the hardware can be a great deal. The VirtIO-GPU virtual GPU device comes into play here, allowing a Guest OS to send graphics commands to it through OpenGL or Vulkan. While we are already there with OpenGL, we can not say the same for Vulkan. Well, until now.

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