VIRTIO 1.1 Standard Moving Closer To Release With GPU Device, Better Performance

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VIRTIO 1.1 Standard Moving Closer To Release With GPU Device, Better Performance

The Virtual I/O Device standard, VIRTIO, is moving closer to seeing its big 1.1 release. The VIRTIO standard as a reminder devices/drivers around networking, storage, and other areas akin to Xen paravirtualized drivers and VMware Guest Tools but designed with cross-hypervisor and cross-OS support in mind...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VIRTIO-1.1-Public-Review

[darkbasic]

VirtioGPU is nice, but until it will be possible to use it with Spice over a tcp socket it will be just an exercise of style unfortunately

[microcode]

I want to see a VirtIO VFS device (for access to the host VFS which is as "native" as it is for an application on the host), hope I don't have to write it, lol. I think the host is the right place for filesystem metadata, snapshotting, caching, and multi-device logic to live (provided the host filesystem can be trusted, I guess).

[Britoid]

GNOME Boxes in 3.32 will enable VirtioGPU when supported too.

[flower]

I really wish we had a virtio gpu directx driver for win

[Britoid]

I really wish we had a virtio gpu directx driver for win

Eh. If Vulkan-VirGL progresses, with DXVK could have a proper solution there.

Parallels on OS X still uses Wined3d afaik.

[spirit]

I want to see a VirtIO VFS device (for access to the host VFS which is as "native" as it is for an application on the host), hope I don't have to write it, lol. I think the host is the right place for filesystem metadata, snapshotting, caching, and multi-device logic to live (provided the host filesystem can be trusted, I guess).

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-FS-Folder-Sharing-VM

[SWY1985]

I've been using Virtio to run several linux distributions through QEMU and I am very impressed, even though I couldn't get 3D graphics working with my NVIDIA binary drivers. (I only get a black screen when I enable 3D) It runs Gnome on Wayland without issue in my guest system.

[Jabberwocky]

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=VirtIO-FS-Folder-Sharing-VM

Thanks for the reminder. 👍 It does not appear in my searches very often.