Get high performing VMs, including the graphics, on my Linux desktop. So, Virgil essentially allows libvirt to create virtual 3D GPUs, that work

The plan is to have a guest GPU that is fully independent of the host GPU. Virgil is a research project to investigate the possibility of creating a virtual 3D GPU for use inside qemu virtual machines, that allows the guest operating system to use the capabilities of the host GPU to accelerate 3D rendering. Utilize the power of my GPU, without the complications of GPU passthrough… Virgil Passthrough is slowly becoming overkill even for that, as gaming support onĪside from having an occasional Windows VM to play around with, I mostly want KVM gpu passthrough is a great option if you run Linux as your mainĬomputer, but want to be able to boot into a Windows VM to play games. In truth though, I realized this setup wasn’t what I was lookingįor.

So to properly utilize VFIO and have a more stable setup, I would want a Gaming on Linux continues to get better over time The technology was made more widely known a few yearsĪgo from the “X Gamers, 1 CPU” serries of videos Linux Tech Tips made. If you don’t know what this means,īasically in Linux it is possible to pass a full device, like a GPU, through toĪ VM to be used directly. Prior to my trip, I had been experimenting once again with VFIO… andĪctually got it working* for the first time. I wanted to be able to work in guest VMs, without a lagging Needed to figure out how to improve the graphics situation of my VMs to catch I love libvirt and virt-manager, but using parallels showed me that I really

My main reason being… my VM computer is not my I was sad when the trial was over, but decided not Would full-screen the VM and it felt like I was running that OS directly on my Parallels handled graphics on both my Windows and Linux guests wonderfully.

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