Is there a reason that VirtualBox is more popular than KVM for desktop on Linux?
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But KVM has absolutely no 3D support to date (not even with QXL/Spice virtual video).
damn, and I just wasted a month running a testbed VDI system with KVM doing 3D rendering for the oil industry. And it worked! I must have been doing something wrong, after all, there's no 3D possible with KVM, right?
damn, and I just wasted a month running a testbed VDI system with KVM doing 3D rendering for the oil industry. And it worked! I must have been doing something wrong, after all, there's no 3D possible with KVM, right?
Please tell me how could you do 3D rendering on a VIRTUAL video card on KVM using the card's hardware acceleration.
I was talking about simple setups with only a virtualized gpu.
An emulated GPU you mean? The performance on such a device would be horrid, just like with any other emulated and not PV or passed through device, especially since GPUs are so CPU cycle sensitive and always have their own processors. Think about it, you're not running emulated qemu, you're running KVM, so that your VM's CPU can actually pass calls to a real CPU, and without it, performance is horrible, which is no surprise. Why do you think things should be different for GPUs?
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