VirtIO-GPU/Graphics Support Is Improving In QEMU But Slowly

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VirtIO-GPU/Graphics Support Is Improving In QEMU But Slowly

There continues a lot of work going into Virgl for 3D guest acceleration with the open-source Linux virtualization stack as well as most recently Vulkan driver activity. However, much of that work driven by Google these days is focused on Chrome OS with "Crosvm" rather than the venerable QEMU...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-GPU-QEMU-2021-H1-State

[ihatemichael]

Gerd Hoffmann's profile pic reminds me of Clark Kent.

[Quackdoc]

Slow work is still work, hopefully qemu will implement venus soon. It's a feature i am highly looking forward to.

[caligula]

Will this perform better than the VMware's new SVGA driver?

[Quackdoc]

Will this perform better than the VMware's new SVGA driver?

Do you have a link to the new svga driver info? didn't know they had one. but this will preform supposedly 80-95% native preformance, so probably