This is particularly useful for llvm-accelerated GL rendering from qemu guest to an offscreen buffer (accessible over vnc or spice) using llvmpipe on the host, rather than using unaccelerated swrast renderer in the guest.
This is the best that can be done in the absence of a host GPU with render node support (such as old Matrox cards common in servers, or fully virtualized cloud environments with no GPU at all). Note: even though NVidia blob drivers do support render nodes, they do not support gbm (yet?), and so rendering will fall back to llvmpipe as well even when the system has a 3000 euro NVidia GPU. Cue Linus picture. Signed-off-by: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> --- meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py | 6 ++++-- scripts/runqemu | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py index 4cfec94d85..129503de63 100644 --- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py +++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/runtime_test.py @@ -212,12 +212,14 @@ class TestImage(OESelftestTestCase): Author: Alexander Kanavin <[email protected]> """ import subprocess, os + + render_hint = """If /dev/dri/renderD* is absent due to lack of suitable GPU, 'modprobe vgem' will create one sutable for mesa llvmpipe sofware renderer.""" try: content = os.listdir("/dev/dri") if len([i for i in content if i.startswith('render')]) == 0: - self.skipTest("No render nodes found in /dev/dri: %s" %(content)) + self.skipTest("No render nodes found in /dev/dri: %s. %s" %(content, render_hint)) except FileNotFoundError: - self.skipTest("/dev/dri directory does not exist; no render nodes available on this machine.") + self.skipTest("/dev/dri directory does not exist; no render nodes available on this machine. %s" %(render_hint)) try: dripath = subprocess.check_output("pkg-config --variable=dridriverdir dri", shell=True) except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu index 0976273eb0..c467b0eb19 100755 --- a/scripts/runqemu +++ b/scripts/runqemu @@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ of the following environment variables (in any order): gl - enable virgl-based GL acceleration (also needs gtk or sdl options) gl-es - enable virgl-based GL acceleration, using OpenGL ES (also needs gtk or sdl options) egl-headless - enable headless EGL output; use vnc (via publicvnc option) or spice to see it + (hint: if /dev/dri/renderD* is absent due to lack of suitable GPU, 'modprobe vgem' will create + one sutable for mesa llvmpipe sofware renderer) serial - enable a serial console on /dev/ttyS0 serialstdio - enable a serial console on the console (regardless of graphics mode) slirp - enable user networking, no root privileges is required -- 2.31.1
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