Where the F is the illusive Virtio-gpu Windows Driver installer file

Emad R

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https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/sect-KVM_Para_virtualized_virtio_Drivers-Using_KVM_virtio_drivers_for_GPU_devices.html

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-3D-Windows-Guests

https://virgil3d.github.io/

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2015/04/virtio-gpu-and-virgl-status-update/

https://studiopixl.com/2017-08-27/3d-acceleration-using-virtio.html

https://gitlab.com/spice/win32/virtio-gpu-wddm-dod

black3dynamite

Everything you need is on this site.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers/index.html

Emad R

@black3dynamite said in Where the F is the illusive Virtio-gpu Windows Driver installer file:

Everything you need is on this site.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-windows-virtual-machines-using-virtio-drivers/index.html

Nope.

There are no real downloads anywhere for VIRTIO-GPU for windows, even thought it was mentioned alot with many success and faster performance.

Those are the current official drivers:

NetKVM/ - Virtio network driver

viostor/ - Virtio block driver

vioscsi/ - Virtio Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) driver

viorng/ - Virtio RNG driver

vioser/ - Virtio serial driver

Balloon/ - Virtio memory balloon driver

qxl/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 7 and earlier. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-1 and later)

qxldod/ - QXL graphics driver for Windows 8 and later. (build virtio-win-0.1.103-2 and later)

pvpanic/ - QEMU pvpanic device driver (build virtio-win-0.1.103-2 and later)

guest-agent/ - QEMU Guest Agent 32bit and 64bit MSI installers

qemupciserial/ - QEMU PCI serial device driver

*.vfd VFD floppy images for using during install of Windows XP

I dont want QXL, which is stable and works but I heard Virtio is better, but I cant find the guest windows driver for it.

Keenuts

Hi,

As mentioned numerous times, this is only a proof of concept.
At least for what I've done, 3D support for windows guests are NOT ready for production. Mesa needs to be ported to windows, and a dedicated winsys for the virtio driver should be implemented.
For the 2D part I'm not sure, it's been too long.

Regards,

Nathan

dyasny

virtio gpu is, afaik, an extension of QXL to enable 3D graphics. I've seen it work in Linux VMs.

QXL, in turn, has been around for a decade now and works great for anything 2D (I've been watching HD movies and running skype videochats while live migrating the desktop VM for example).

Not sure what is going on with windows support, but I'm sure you can get a straight answer if you ask on the spice-space.org mailing list