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[Xen-devel] VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs and Xen


  • To: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 22:52:41 +0200
  • Delivery-date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 20:52:47 +0000
  • List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xen.org>

Hello,

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.

Components:
        - Linux 4.4 kernel includes the DRM driver for VirtIO-GPU 3D 
acceleration (needed in the VM).
        - Qemu 2.5 (rc0) includes the VirtIO-GPU 3D mode support (needed on the 
host/dom0).
        - Gallium3D VirGL driver is included in Mesa git (needed in the VM, 
supports up to OpenGL 3.3 atm).
        - On the host/dom0 one needs *any* OpenGL driver (for the host GPU 
obviously), no special requirements there, if I understood correctly.


Has someone looked into this already? How much work would it be to get 
VirtIO-GPU working in Xen HVM guests? 


Thanks,

-- Pasi


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