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Windows paravirtualized drivers for QEMU\KVM

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2021-08-03 · latest 2026-09-24

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  1. There are a few experimental solutions currently available: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull... https://github.com/qemus/qemu-vmvga https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/venus.html…
  2. …to enable Vulkan in any guest OS for which virtio-gpu guest driver will be developed. For Windows https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull... is being developed, hopefully it will take off
    comment by shatsky · 2024-12-12 · in QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support
  3. …some day, because it is leagues ahead of VMware Player in speed. Everyone's hopes are riding on https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull... .
  4. There's mature VirtIO drivers for just about everything already, under the virtio-win umbrella: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows My desktop PC is using libvirt+qemu (on an Arch host. I use Arch, btw) to PCI passthru…
    comment by virtioliker · 2023-12-29 · in Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
  5. Note also: it just got an experimental Windows driver! [1] https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/pull...
  6. VirtIO changed license from GPL to BSD so that it could be signed by Microsoft. See here: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/comm...