SharedGL: An OpenGL implementation over shared memory enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines

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  • sharedgl

    An OpenGL implementation built for shared memory and networks, enabling 3D acceleration in virtual machines and across devices on LAN

  • The repository is located at https://github.com/dmaivel/sharedgl. The project is very much still in an alpha stage, with large portions of several OpenGL versions being missing. However, it can run demoes such as glxgears and minetest with decent performance. This project isn't really an effective replacement for VirGL (except for on Windows) due to its current limitations, however it does provide some 3D acceleration in Linux and Windows guests on QEMU/KVM. It should be noted it does not provide 3D acceleration for the entire VM, but rather passes through the OpenGL calls from one process from the VM to the host for rendering.

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    MESA GL/3Dfx Glide pass-through for QEMU

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