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I need something that can run KDE Wayland session properly, including clipboard sync. VirtualBox has a broken clipboard (supposedly they plan to fix it), and it
by shmerl 11mo ago
I need something that can run KDE Wayland session properly, including clipboard sync. VirtualBox has a broken clipboard (supposedly they plan to fix it), and it's only software rendering.
How does VMware implement OpenGL and Vulkan acceleration in the VM?
- tuetuopay 11mo agoMy guess would be something akin to VirGL where they forward opengl/vulkan commands to the host. I've never dug into the nitty gritty, but VMware workstation is recognized as a GPU accelerated app, and exposes a virtual GPU in the VM. On the linux side, the vmwgfx kernel driver and DRM drivers are used. For X11 you use modesetting, and for Wayland whatever it auto-selects. I don't use KDE but I can confirm Debian's Gnome works out-of-the-box with the default Wayland backend (to be fair, the only other compositor I tried was Sway, which is known for being picky about the GPU used). Copy/paste works properly, as do general acceleration. I use those VMs daily, fullscreen on a 1440p monitor, so acceleration is not optional :)
- shmerl 11mo agoNice, I'll look into it, thanks!