
Those interested in these patches posted by AMD Linux engineer Pierre-Eric Pelloux-Prayer can see this Mesa merge request for more details on this work to improve the AMD Radeon Linux graphics/gaming experience within VMs. AMD Radeon Settings is the primary driver interface that allows the user to make changes to the graphics driver’s many options. More background information on this area in VirtGPU DRM Native Contexts Show Potential For Good VM Gaming Performance. Radeon Software is available at AMD Drivers + Download Center. Besides Mesa patches, there are also some patches needed against Virglrenderer, QEMU, and the Linux kernel to make this all work. Ultimately this native context support for VirtIO should yield better performance and easier maintenance/support.

This pending work allows for the native hardware drivers - namely RadeonSI Gallium3D and the RADV Vulkan driver - to be used within a QEMU+KVM-based virtual machine with VirtIO.Ĭurrently those with AMD Radeon graphics and running QEMU+KVM have to resort to using the Virgl/Venus Mesa graphics stack while this native context support for VirtIO allows for the proper hardware drivers to be used within the VMs both for OpenGL and Vulkan. EK, the premium liquid cooling gear manufacturer, has once again partnered with PowerColor, the exclusive supplier of graphics cards powered by AMDs graphics processors, to bring you a factory water-cooled Radeon RX 7900XTX GPU. As part of an AMD effort to enhance the performance of the AMD Linux graphics drivers when running in a virtualized environment, a set of initial patches are pending for Mesa that implement native context support for VirtIO. AMDs 7th Generation APU products Radeon Graphics are only supported by AMD Radeon Software Crimson Edition on Windows 7 (32 & 64-bit) and Windows 10 (64-bit).
