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Standard Debian-with-root Arm package repo in pKVM hardware-nested VM with OpenGL (v)GPU remoting! So many years of upstream work across Linux, Android and Chro
by transpute 1y ago
Standard Debian-with-root Arm package repo in pKVM hardware-nested VM with OpenGL (v)GPU remoting! So many years of upstream work across Linux, Android and ChromeOS to make this possible. Now we need phone/tablet OEMs to support Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) and OpenTitan-derived enclaves, so this feature can move beyond Pixel hardware.
https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/01/15/the-state-of-gfx-virtualization-using-virglrenderer/ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/01/15/the-...
> GFX virtualization aims at providing support for hardware accelerated 3D graphics in virtual machines. Unlike GPU-passthrough, with GFX virtualization the host and all VM guests can access the host GPU simultaneously. Vulkan and OpenGL are supported by virglrenderer using various approaches.. vDRM is a much thinner layer.. able to achieve native GPU performance, where VirGL and Venus may struggle to overcome expensive host/guest synchronizations..at the beginning of 2025, vDRM is partially supported by crosvm.
Hopefully Google's phone-tablet-laptop-desktop convergence of Android, ChromeOS and developer-targeted Debian Linux will motivate Apple to restore iPadOS 16.2 (2022!) virtualization support, https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/5748 https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/5748.
- izacus 1y agoSamsung supports this on the new Flip 7 as well. Ironically, not on Fold 7 though. (The Flip is Exynos while the Fold is Qualcomm.)
- ankurdhama 1y agoMay be Qualcomm charges extra for using virtualization features on their chips?
- izacus 1y agoNot sure, as far as folks say it's because it doesn't support all the features Android Virt expects on current phone SoCs.