Virglrenderer 0.8 Offers Better Open-Source OpenGL Support To KVM/QEMU Guests

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Virglrenderer 0.8 Offers Better Open-Source OpenGL Support To KVM/QEMU Guests

Virglrenderer 0.8 was released last week as one of the components to the "Virgl" graphics stack for getting OpenGL acceleration working within KVM+QEMU guests that is in good enough shape for handling relatively recent GL/GLES Linux games and other workloads...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Virglrenderer-0.80-Better-Gfx

[tildearrow]

I've had hangs using VirGL on Android-x86...
Otherwise, it is veeeery fast.

[Xaero_Vincent]

Any update on QEMU Windows Direct3D guest support? This mostly benefits Chromebook Crostini users I think.

We need a reliable way to play EAC and BattlEye protected games on Linux.

Parallels recently got Direct3D 11 implemented in Metal for Mac OS w/ Windows 10 guests. Perhaps VMWare Workstation has something planned next for Linux hosts?

[tildearrow]

Parallels recently got Direct3D 11 implemented in Metal for Mac OS w/ Windows 10 guests. Perhaps VMWare Workstation has something planned next for Linux hosts?

Somebody should start a project to support DirectX 11 on VM via Vulkan based on DXVK.

[pal666]

We need a reliable way to play EAC and BattlEye protected games on Linux.

you only need proton for that. valve is working with vendors

[pal666]

Somebody should start a project to support DirectX 11 on VM via Vulkan based on DXVK.

doesn't dxvk just work on windows with vulkan drivers(i have no idea)?

[tildearrow]

doesn't dxvk just work on windows with vulkan drivers(i have no idea)?

Oh! This can be a method. Now to bring VirVK...

...but will the aforementioned anti-cheat software work? DXVK is known to have issues with anti-cheat games.

[pal666]

...but will the aforementioned anti-cheat software work? DXVK is known to have issues with anti-cheat games.

i think it's a wine issue, but maybe they don't like any non-standard dll - dunno

[RussianNeuroMancer]

We need a reliable way to play EAC and BattlEye protected games on Linux.

Anti-cheats usually pretty good in detecting the fact that program is running in virtual machine, so virgl not gonna help here anyway. We need either native releases with native EAC/BattleEye, or some solution from Valve.

[GreenByte]

i think it's a wine issue, but maybe they don't like any non-standard dll - dunno

Any unsigned library is a no-no for anti-cheats. DXVK devs would have to provide signed dlls for it to have any chance to work on battleye/eac.