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[โ€“] vividspecter@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Cool, but the title is a big oversell.

LookingGlass basically added a pretty fast software renderer for Windows guests. Which is nice, because it's a pretty slick interface and works better than many of the alternatives, but it probably isn't useful for gaming.

The main strength of LookingGlass is for GPU passthrough setups, and this new feature doesn't seem to be relevant for that. I'd say the stuff happening with Venus and native-context on Linux guests is more interesting (if quite new) since it doesn't rely on a second GPU.

[โ€“] trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago

The new indirect GPU driver is AMAZING. I've previously suffered through getting GPU passthrough on one of my systems before, but I no longer need to because Linux flawlessly plays every game that I could ever want.

But I never liked that the VMs that I used for more general purpose stuff had choppy display performance. The indirect GPU driver sounds like it's as easy as installing the driver in the VM and you'll get much smoother graphical performance without the headache of configuring GPU pass through, which is awesome! I'd love to see that functionality baked in to stuff like Virt Manager and GNOME Boxes.