QEMU 2.5 Is Near With 3D GPU Support & More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: QEMU 2.5 Is Near With 3D GPU Support & More

QEMU 2.5-RC3 was released today as the last final release candidate scheduled before the official release of QEMU 2.5...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-2.5-Is-Near

[Ericg]

Just a reminder folks:

You will need... Mesa 11.1, Kernel 4.4, and QEMU 2.5 in order to use Virtual 3D. If you're not on a rolling release distro, it'll probably be a bit before you see the fruits of these labors.

[reub2000]

Just a reminder folks:

You will need... Mesa 11.1, Kernel 4.4, and QEMU 2.5 in order to use Virtual 3D. If you're not on a rolling release distro, it'll probably be a bit before you see the fruits of these labors.

Agree those the requirements for the guest or the host?

[Ericg]

Agree those the requirements for the guest or the host?

Host needs those for sure, I think the Mesa and kernel requirements are the same for guests too. BUT, I could be mistaken on that point.

[peppercats]

qemu 2.5 enables hyper-v enlightenments when using GPU passthrough with an Nvidia card

requires you to use the hv_vendor_id cpu flag

[ruthan]

Would be this better than not too much good Virtualbox 3D acceleration on desktop?

I know that QEMU has much more use cases that Virtualbox, for example with ARM Android - bochs, exagears.. but main visualization use is still on PC.

Second question is, would this driver be OpenGL only or Direct 3D for Windows visualization would be also possible?

[Shimon]

On ARM, due a 4-year-old issue, it's not possible to boot linux images. Interestingly BSD's or Hurd are fine.

[Ericg]

On ARM, due a 4-year-old issue, it's not possible to boot linux images. Interestingly BSD's or Hurd are fine.

What's the bug? o.O

[Shimon]

It's more of a lack of feature:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+bug/893208

[pal666]

If you're not on a rolling release distro, it'll probably be a bit before you see the fruits of these labors.

two months or so if you want to skip rcs, then dnf --releasever=24

I think the Mesa and kernel requirements are the same for guests too

windows guests have no kernel