Mesa's VirGL For OpenGL Within VMs Now Supports Tessellation Shaders

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa's VirGL For OpenGL Within VMs Now Supports Tessellation Shaders

It was just days ago that the VirGL driver stack -- which is used for supporting OpenGL hardware acceleration within guest VMs that is passed onto the host's driver -- picked up FP64 support while now its latest addition is ARB_tessellation_shader support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirGL-ARB_tessellation_shader

[darkbasic]

I love the progress they're doing on Virgil, can't wait for this to be fixed: https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/597030/

[shmerl]

I wish Debian maintainers would build qemu with virgl enabled already. That feature request has been open for two years and a half now with no progress in sight. It's necessary to build it every time manually.

[fuzz]

Now we just need "Virkan". Sorry, I couldn't resist.

[darkbasic]

I wish Debian maintainers would build qemu with virgl enabled already. That feature request has been open for two years and a half now with no progress in sight. It's necessary to build it every time manually.

That's one of the reasons why I don't use Debian anymore. It always happens, for every kind of package.
Nowadays if you cannot move at a fast pace you're out of the market.

[franglais125]

I wish Debian maintainers would build qemu with virgl enabled already. That feature request has been open for two years and a half now with no progress in sight. It's necessary to build it every time manually.

It was just pushed to the unstable branch . Next upload to unstable will probably have virgl enabled.

[shmerl]

Doesn't look like it was pushed to unstable yet, but it was pushed to the source repo.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/qemu

So next time the package will be built, it should include virgl at last!

[Ruediix]

I wonder how long until this stack will be inserted on top of all non-complete drivers as a means to complete them.

Another thing that would be nice would be to create a version that can run on OpenGL ES and another version that can run on Vulkan.

The later one would make life a lot easier for driver developers if they only have to build a Vulkan driver.

[gerddie]

I wonder how long until this stack will be inserted on top of all non-complete drivers as a means to complete them.

The guest relies on the features of the host driver, so no, there is no way you can get magically gain functionality by using virgl.