Hi @t.lamprecht there're quite recent HowTos on how to get Virtio-GPU Venus up and running. Maybe that helps for proxmox to implement this in the next release?
Hi @t.lamprecht,
i just found a very recent information / GitHub repo that will include all the patches that are needed to get Virtio-GPU Venus up and running:
In addtition, please check out the corresponding Reddit discussion for background information (it's a topic about a game because this is used as a showcase):
The required patches are not upstream yet. Maybe your devs could take a look into that and either build PVE against the patches for the upcoming release or maybe even help getting those upstream. Thanks for your attention.
Well, unfortunately PVE 8.2 does not support it. But it looks like Proxmox followed my suggestions in helping upstream with the needed stacks. They have an open position in that field now.I would love to see Venus in PVE. The existing VirtIO-GL works, but it's not performant enough on, e.g., Intel iGPUs, to support, e.g., low latency audio in a VM using Pulse Audio. Combining VirtIO GL with hardware accelerated (H.264) xrdp from the experimental repo is almost there on a i5-12500T's iHD 770, but not fast enough yet.
If Venus is that much of a performance improvement, it might push GPU-accelerated remote desktops with sound into the usuable realm without real GPU passthrough.
That said, while I can't speak for the PVE devs, I imagine this is not yet high on their list of features invest time in to release. It will be non-trivial in any case, and likely won't be considered stable enough to try to implement at least until the relevant patches are upstreamed.
I'm really excited to see how this goes, though. I've been hoping we get Venus support for a while now.
Not sure. Is the roadmap public? Like I linked some post before this one: They're hiring people to implement the this. Most likely you won't find it on the roadmap until they do have people to implement this.
@t.lamprecht If you guys could target qemu 9.2 as well as recent enought VirGL renderer (maybe via Debian Backports if needed?) VirtIO GPU Venus could be working with the next release! This would be another unique selling point for Proxmox! Your customers could use accelerated GPU workloads in VMs with consumer graphics on there virtualization nodes!
thanks for mentioning that, we'll look into that for sure once we're evaluating qemu 9.2
Thanks for looking into this, either way.
You're most likely right, I guess it would mean use backports for more than just virgl. It looks like it might also make sense to use the newest version of virgl/virglrenderer 1.1.0, since it has still a lot of Venus improvements:
