Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-02-04 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Fri, 2017-02-03 at 23:57 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 01/17/2017 05:10 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:58:45 -0800 > > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > > > Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I > > > don't have the references handy, but there was a w

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-02-03 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/17/2017 05:10 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:58:45 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I don't have the references handy, but there was a working Linux Mesa driver for it. Any other OS will need it's own driver writ

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-20 Thread poma
On 18.01.2017 02:10, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:58:45 -0800 > Samuel Sieb wrote: > >> Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I >> don't have the references handy, but there was a working Linux Mesa >> driver for it. Any other OS will need it's ow

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 20:10 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:58:45 -0800 > Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I > > don't have the references handy, but there was a working Linux Mesa > > driver for it. Any other OS

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:58:45 -0800 Samuel Sieb wrote: > Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I > don't have the references handy, but there was a working Linux Mesa > driver for it. Any other OS will need it's own driver written. The web page is (possibly): ht

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/17/2017 04:54 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: TL;DR: forget about getting accelerated graphics from sharing a single GPU between host and guest. It ain't gonna happen. Not entirely true. There was some work done on a virtio GL driver. I don't have the references handy, but there was a wo

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 18:49 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote: > I saw a blog post that claimed virt-manager 1.4 has the > support for 3D video acceleration in virtual machines, > then I saw lots of comments in the blog saying that > it won't work without libvirt support. Since I always > thought virt-manag

Re: KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 01/17/2017 03:49 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: I saw a blog post that claimed virt-manager 1.4 has the support for 3D video acceleration in virtual machines, then I saw lots of comments in the blog saying that it won't work without libvirt support. Since I always thought virt-manager just called libv

KVM and 3D?

2017-01-17 Thread Tom Horsley
I saw a blog post that claimed virt-manager 1.4 has the support for 3D video acceleration in virtual machines, then I saw lots of comments in the blog saying that it won't work without libvirt support. Since I always thought virt-manager just called libvirt to do everything that confused the heck o