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Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs

([Virtualization] 5 Hours Ago Vulkan Ray-Tracing Within VMs)


Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code.

Yiwei Zhang has contributed Vulkan ray-tracing support to the [1]Venus driver for next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release. This Venus driver code enables the following extensions: VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations, VK_KHR_acceleration_structure, VK_KHR_ray_query, VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline, VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch, and VK_KHR_ray_tracing_maintenance1.

Yiwei Zhang has shown this Vulkan ray-tracing support in action when paired with the latest Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer:

[2]The merge request was merged on Friday into Mesa 25.1-devel.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Venus

[2] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/33907


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The astronomer Francesco Sizi, a contemporary of Galileo, argues that
Jupiter can have no satellites:

There are seven windows in the head, two nostrils, two ears, two
eyes, and a mouth; so in the heavens there are two favorable stars, two
unpropitious, two luminaries, and Mercury alone undecided and indifferent.
From which and many other similar phenomena of nature such as the seven
metals, etc., which it were tedious to enumerate, we gather that the number
of planets is necessarily seven. [...]
Moreover, the satellites are invisible to the naked eye and
therefore can have no influence on the earth and therefore would be useless
and therefore do not exist.