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Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs
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David Airlie |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs |
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Sun, 14 Feb 2016 21:47:05 -0500 (EST) |
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Saket Sinha" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Cc: "Dave Airlie" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Monday, 15 February, 2016 12:34:18 PM
> Subject: VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs
>
> Hi,
>
> It seems upstream Linux/Gallium3D/Mesa/Qemu/KVM has recently gained
> virtualized support for 3D/OpenGL hardware acceleration in VMs,
> allowing using the GPU of the host in VMs.
>
> As per my understanding the following components are needed -
>
> - Linux 4.4 kernel includes the DRM driver for VirtIO-GPU 3D
> acceleration (needed in the VM).
> - Qemu 2.5 includes the VirtIO-GPU 3D mode support.
In qemu 2.5 only gtk3 frontend support 3D and must be enabled with gl=on
> - Gallium3D VirGL driver is included in Mesa git (needed in the VM,
> supports up to OpenGL 3.3 atm).
> - On the host *any* OpenGL driver (for the host GPU obviously), no
> special requirements there.
>
> In order to do test this, if I can be guided as to what are the right
> applications to test the entire Graphic stack on a QEMU-KVM Virtual
> machine, I shall be grateful.
glxinfo in the guest should print virgl in the renderer string, that is enough
to know the stack is functioning.
if it shows llvmpipe it isn't.
Dave.