A Look at Vulkan Extensions in Venus

A Look at Vulkan Extensions in Venus

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Igor Torrente
Oct 31, 2022

Venus is a virtual Vulkan driver based on the Virtio-GPU protocol. Effectively a protocol on top of another protocol, it defines the serialization of Vulkan commands between guest and host. Here’s a closer look at the Venus driver, its components, and their relations in the context of extensions.

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Igor Torrente

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