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

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

Hello,

And now all the components listed below are released and available easily.

Dom0:
- Qemu 2.5 has virtio-gpu 3D/OpenGL acceleration support for VMs.

DomU:
- Linux 4.4 kernel has the virtio-gpu drm driver.
- Mesa 11.1 has the virtio-gpu 3D driver (virgl galliumd3 / OpenGL).


Did anyone try this stuff with Xen already? :)


-- Pasi


On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:52:41PM +0200, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> 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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