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Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs

Written by Michael Larabel in Virtualization on 8 March 2025 at 06:50 AM EST. 9 Comments
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. This Venus driver code enables the following extensions: VK_KHR_deferred_host_operations, VK_KHR_acceleration_structure, VK_KHR_ray_query, VK_KHR_ray_tracing_pipeline, VK_KHR_ray_tracing_position_fetch, and VK_KHR_ray_tracing_maintenance1.

Yiwei Zhang has shown this Vulkan ray-tracing support in action when paired with the latest Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer:

👁 Venus Vulkan RT


The merge request was merged on Friday into Mesa 25.1-devel.

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