Add Venus docs for Vulkan testing on Linux VMs#722
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Add Venus docs for Vulkan testing on Linux VMs#722
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| - [llvm/offload-test-suite](https://github.com/llvm/offload-test-suite) | ||
| - [llvm/llvm-project](https://github.com/llvm/lvm-project) | ||
| - [microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler](https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler) | ||
| - follow [adding-to-llvm-build](https://github.com/llvm/offload-test-suite?tab=readme-ov-file#adding-to-llvm-build) setup for enableing offload |
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| - follow [adding-to-llvm-build](https://github.com/llvm/offload-test-suite?tab=readme-ov-file#adding-to-llvm-build) setup for enableing offload | |
| - Follow [adding-to-llvm-build](https://github.com/llvm/offload-test-suite?tab=readme-ov-file#adding-to-llvm-build) setup for enableing offload |
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Question: How popular is venus? Where would it end up in terms of significance, tier 1, tier 2?
| - DirectXShaderCompiler builds | ||
| - Mesa and Vulkan tooling | ||
| - LLVM and DXC software requirments | ||
| - (complers, linkers, build systems, etc) |
| - [llvm/offload-test-suite](https://github.com/llvm/offload-test-suite) | ||
| - [llvm/llvm-project](https://github.com/llvm/lvm-project) | ||
| - [microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler](https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler) | ||
| - follow [adding-to-llvm-build](https://github.com/llvm/offload-test-suite?tab=readme-ov-file#adding-to-llvm-build) setup for enableing offload |
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| If you don't have vulkaninfo. You can test via `api-query` |
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It is used heavily in Chromos, the Android emulator, and in cloud computing scenarios. It would be in no tier we won't add any CI for this. Its an API pass through layer so its behavior is always going to be dependent on the underlying gpu that it doesn't know anything about. This is just a suggestion on how to set it up with software that doesn't make you build the mesa driver yourself. |
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Venus is a Vulkan driver that allows Vulkan without vendor drivers in the guest OS.
It is very useful for testing Vulkan workloads without devoting a GPU to your VM the way VFIO requires.
These docs show how we can test Vulkan API forwarding without building any special software.