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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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Brandy Davis, an outfielder and teammate of mine with the Pittsburgh Pirates,
is my choice for team captain. Cincinnati was beating us 3-1, and I led
off the bottom of the eighth with a walk. The next hitter banged a hard
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bat, our manager put in the fast Brandy Davis to run for the player at first.
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