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  • AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests

    Phoronix: AV1 Video Decoding Added To Mesa's VirGL For QEMU/KVM Guests

    Merged for Mesa 23.3 is support for the VirGL code to handle accelerated AV1 video decoding within guest virtual machines...

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  • #2
    I never knew VA-API on virtual machine was a thing. That's really cool!

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    • #3
      now we need dx drivers for windows guest, such thing could kill vmware and virtualbox

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      • #4
        Originally posted by andre30correia View Post
        now we need dx drivers for windows guest, such thing could kill vmware and virtualbox
        It might be possible to make DXVK run on the Windows guest with acceleration through Venus (assuming a driver is made).

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        • #5
          pretty cool, another small improvement driving forward the linux ecosystem

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          • #6
            has anyone actually gotten this to work? I have had no such luck on my rx580

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            • #7
              Originally posted by tildearrow View Post

              It might be possible to make DXVK run on the Windows guest with acceleration through Venus (assuming a driver is made).
              There's some work being done on it.
              Hello! This series of changes spanning across multiple repositories introduce support for 3d accelerated virtiogpu windows guests. Wglgears window is rendered with wgl on virgl and window below i...

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