VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs

[David Airlie]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Saket Sinha" <saket.sinha89 at gmail.com>
> To: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, kvm at vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel at nongnu.org
> Cc: "Dave Airlie" <airlied at redhat.com>
> Sent: Monday, 15 February, 2016 12:34:18 PM
> Subject: VirtIO-GPU 3D OpenGL Hardware Acceleration for VMs
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It seems upstream Linux/Gallium3D/Mesa/Qemu/KVM has recently gained
> virtualized support for 3D/OpenGL hardware acceleration in VMs,
> allowing using the GPU of the host in VMs.
> 
> As per my understanding the following components are needed -
> 
> - Linux 4.4 kernel includes the DRM driver for VirtIO-GPU 3D
> acceleration (needed in the VM).
> - Qemu 2.5  includes the VirtIO-GPU 3D mode support.

In qemu 2.5 only gtk3 frontend support 3D and must be enabled with gl=on

> - Gallium3D VirGL driver is included in Mesa git (needed in the VM,
> supports up to OpenGL 3.3 atm).
> - On the host *any* OpenGL driver (for the host GPU obviously), no
> special requirements there.
> 
> In order to do test this, if I can be guided as to what are the right
> applications to test the entire Graphic stack on a QEMU-KVM Virtual
> machine, I shall be grateful.

glxinfo in the guest should print virgl in the renderer string, that is enough
to know the stack is functioning.

if it shows llvmpipe it isn't.

Dave.