Does QubesOS support paravirtualized 3d acceleration in Qubes (i.e. Virtio-GPU)?

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Hello, I’ve been using QubesOS as of late but I have found the performance of Firefox in Qubes to be rather slow. This appears to be due to the lack of actual 3d acceleration and accelerated video decode in Qubes. Does QubesOS support Virtio or other such 3d acceleration solutions?

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hi

Qubes OS use software rendering in qubes, this lead to very poor rendering performance as llvmpipe is used.

If you want 3D rendering, you need a second GPU and go through a complex passthrough setup to use that GPU in a single qube at a time.

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Or, you wait for Support for opt-in GPU acceleration via virtio-GPU native contexts · Issue #8552 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub

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