Mesa 19.2's Virgl Sees Huge Performance Win Around Buffer Copy Transfers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Mesa 19.2's Virgl Sees Huge Performance Win Around Buffer Copy Transfers

For those using Virgl to enjoy Gallium3D-based OpenGL acceleration to guest virtual machines on Linux, the Mesa 19.2 release paired with the latest Virgl renderer library should provide a very significant speed-up...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mesa-19.2-Virgl-Buf-Copy-Xfer

[rene]

amazing news for those of us who use Qemu/KVM for all their daily cross platform development enablement ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyclA-_M-aA

[moilami]

That Twilight Struggle is totally awesome as boardgame version. It lives very high to its name, the game is real struggle, where you have to make do with tough choices about what is the least bad of all disastrous cards you have. So much fun!

[RussianNeuroMancer]

Is virgl actually work for anyone on Ubuntu 19.04 host with Ubuntu 19.04 guest? Seems like all components is available, driver loads, yet there is either black screen or llvmpipe (depends on BIOS or UEFI in VM configuration).

[Marc.2377]

amazing news for those of us who use Qemu/KVM for all their daily cross platform development enablement ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyclA-_M-aA

I don't see how, considering it's only useful for linux-kernel guests at this moment. Isn't it?

[Nille_kungen]

amazing news for those of us who use Qemu/KVM for all their daily cross platform development enablement ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyclA-_M-aA

My virtualmachines is much slower than that.
Do you get that type of performance?

[muncrief]

I was a Virgl all the way up until I was 14.

I'm sorry, I tried to resist. But in the end I had to give in to my puerile impulses ...

[Guest]

amazing news for those of us who use Qemu/KVM for all their daily cross platform development enablement ;-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyclA-_M-aA

It seems to run much better in qemu than it does in virtualbox. I might want to switch over to qemu for windows virtualization in the future. Too bad Microsoft doesn't provide qemu images of their operating systems.

[darkbasic]

Please please please add VirGL tcp Spice support, otherwise all of those goodies would be of no use for most of us.