[Spice-devel] qxldod driver for Windows 11

[Carlos González]

So the "rumors" are true: you (in general) really did discontinue/kill the
qxl drivers, if not the entire SPICE project soon. Was it because IBM?
Since being sold to them the first one to die was Centos, now this...

FYI:
https://gist.github.com/pojntfx/b860e123e649504bcd298aa6e92c4043#file-main-sh-L32
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/virglrenderer-devel/2021-January/001897.html
virtio-gpu implies virgl, and currently only works on Linux guests; RedHat
people explicitly deemed the Windows work "not worthy".

Thanks for killing the project.

El vie, 2 sept 2022 a las 6:53, Victor Toso (<victortoso at redhat.com>)
escribió:

> Hi Carlos,
>
> On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 12:08:04AM +0000, Carlos González wrote:
> > I downloaded latest virtio-win ISO, and by browsing it I
> > noticed that, unlike the other drivers, for the qxldod one
> > there's only up to win10, and no explicit win11 versions.
> >
> > Does this mean that there are no drivers for Windows 11, and no
> > possibility of setting up a VM with full SPICE support?
> >
> > Thanks beforehand.
>
> You are correct, the last cycle of development was focused for
> windows 10.
>
> I expect windows 11 to maintain some compatibility with windows
> 10 so the drivers should work to some extent but I did not test
> it.
>
> I'd not hope for further development on qxl unless there is
> someone interested in investing time on it (and it would take
> some time).
>
> I'd instead switch to virtio-vga / virtio-gpu as this seems to
> have an active community.
>
>     https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows
>
> Cheers,
> Victor
>
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