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QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support

With its latest reales qemu added the Venus patches so that virtio-gpu now support venus encapsulation for vulkan. This is one more piece to the puzzle towards full Vulkan support.

An outdated blog post on clollabora described in 2021 how to enable 3D acceleration of Vulkan applications in QEMU through the Venus experimental Vulkan driver for VirtIO-GPU with a local development environment. Following up on the outdated write up, this is how its done today.

Definitions

Let's start with the brief description of the projects mentioned in the post & extend them:

Informatic

<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
  <!-- ... -->
  <qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-acpitable'/>
    <qemu:arg value='file=/some/path/slic.bin'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-acpitable'/>
    <qemu:arg value='file=/some/path/msdm.bin'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/>
    <qemu:arg value='file=/some/path/smbios_type_0.bin'/>
    <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/>

r00tdaemon

Installation

pip3 install --user pyqt5  
sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5  
sudo apt-get install pyqt5-dev-tools
sudo apt-get install qttools5-dev-tools

---

Configuring to run from terminal

numberoverzero

import asyncio
missing = object()


class Value:
    '''
    Simple class that enables `await value.wait_for(foo)` to wait until the
    variable is set to the expected value, without blocking the event loop.

    Loosely modeled after asyncio.Event and asyncio.Condition

trendels

rsync daemon mode over ssh

There are several common ways to do rsync backups of hosts over ssh:

1. As a non-root user. Upsides: very secure. Downside: cannot back up sensitive files.
2. As root, with a public key. Downsides: Whoever has the private key has full root access to the host being backed up.
3. As root, with a public key and a "forced command". Upsides: Restricts access to the server. Downsides: Requires either careful matching of rsync options (which might change over time), or "validator" scripts. Neither idea sounds very appealing to me.
4. Running rsync in daemon mode on the host being backed up. Upsides: Lots of useful options, like read-only mode, running as a different user if required, server-side excludes/includes, etc. Downsides: Opens up a TCP port that has full filesystem read access and is hard to secure (Ideally you could make the rsync daemon use a unix socket instead, that could be secured by filesystem permissions, but I haven't found a way to do that).

Here is another option t

projectgus

/*
 * SD card CRC32 calculator by Angus Gratton for Freetronics
 *
 * CRC32 implementation based on the implementation in the C SNIPPETS archive
 * http://web.archive.org/web/20080303102524/http://c.snippets.org/snip_lister.php?fname=crc_32.c
 *
 * Original Copyright (C) 1986 Gary S. Brown.  You may use this program, or
 * code or tables extracted from it, as desired without restriction.
 *
 * This version is released with the same lack of restrictions, use however you please.