VMware Working On Emulated Coherent Graphics Memory - Needed For GL 4.4 / Vulkan

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VMware Working On Emulated Coherent Graphics Memory - Needed For GL 4.4 / Vulkan

For ironing out the OpenGL 4.4+ support within their VMWGFX virtual graphics driver stack and/or for starting out work on bringing up Vulkan support to guest VMs running VMware virtualization products, their longtime graphics driver team is working on emulated coherent graphics memory support...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Emulated-Coherent-Video-RAM

[Noremacam]

I'm curious if the performance penalty will be minor enough for gaming.

[Danniello]

Vulkan support in guest Windows VM means DXVK support, so... it means DX11 support! It would be huge!

Today VMware Player/Workstation in theory is supporting DX10, but it is horrible, almost unusable. I tried GTA5 - it is working, but with many graphics glitches and so slow that it is almost unplayable (Linux host with GeForce 1070).