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Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs
Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code.
Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code. Yiwei Zhang has contributed Vulkan ray-tracing support to the Venus driver for next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release. Yiwei Zhang has shown this Vulkan ray-tracing support in action when paired with the latest Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer:
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