Bug#813658: Further progress?

[Hillel Lubman]

Is there anything else needed to move this forward?

Regards,
Hillel Lubman.

Bug#813658: Further progress?

[Hillel Lubman]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:24:48 +0300 Michael Tokarev  wrote:
> Can someone please tell me what _is_ virglrenderer?
> 
> Is it useful on its own with, eg, spice, and/or libvirt,
> without local UI frontends like GTK or SDL?
> 
> What it provides?

The actual project is described here:  https://virgil3d.github.io[1] 
>From the description it appears to be made for Qemu specifically.

Here is another description:

/The virgil3d rendering library is a library used by qemu to implement/
/3D GPU support for the virtio GPU./

but I'm not an expert on it, so not sure whether it can be somehow useful on 
its own.

Looking at how other distros package things, for example Arch provides two 
packages

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu/[2] 
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu-headless/[3] 

Regular one depends on virglrenderer, while the headless one doesn't. I suppose
they were trying to solve the same issue.

Regards,
Hillel Lubman.






[1] https://virgil3d.github.io
[2] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu/
[3] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/qemu-headless/

Bug#813658: Further progress?

[Michael Tokarev]

10.01.2018 05:03, Hillel Lubman wrote:
> Now Debian already ships spice 0.14.0, so with this dependency issue out of 
> the way, what else is needed
> to enable virgl support in qemu? [...]

Can someone please tell me what _is_ virglrenderer?

Is it useful on its own with, eg, spice, and/or libvirt,
without local UI frontends like GTK or SDL?

What it provides?

I see that virglrenderer package is not available on stretch
(I tried to build qemu on stretch just to compare what's
needed with virgl and without virgl), and I see that this
package is orphaned now.

Thanks,

/mjt

Bug#813658: Further progress?

[Hillel Lubman]

Now Debian already ships spice 0.14.0, so with this dependency issue out of the 
way, what else is needed
to enable virgl support in qemu? Should packages be split in some way to 
provide a headless variant for
those who only care about server side qemu usage and don't want many 
dependencies?

Regards,
Hillel Lubman.