Support for making use of Vulkan with VirtIO-GPU while using QEMU could very soon be upstream.

Linaro developer Alex Bennée posted the patches on Tuesday for pulling into upstream QEMU for handling VirtIO-GPU Vulkan support. This follows Mesa's [1]Venus Vulkan driver being updated to allow QEMU support . Separately, last month saw [2]Gfxstream merged into Mesa for Vulkan virtualization as another effort.

The set of patches include Venus context support for VirtIO-GPU, Virgl resource management for VirtIO-GPU, and a variety of other changes needed to get this Vulkan support working under QEMU when paired with the latest Virglrenderer and Mesa.

Those interested in this work can currently find [3]the PULL patches on the mailing list but in short order will hopefully all be merged into upstream QEMU Git.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Venus-Driver-QEMU-Support

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Gfxstream-Merged

[3] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-10/msg05359.html