homebrew-qemu-virgl

A homebrew tap for qemu with support for 3d accelerated guests

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A homebrew tap for qemu with support for 3d accelerated guests

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jakogut·Oct 2, 2025

Give KDE Plasma a shot! You can even try it in QEMU with virgl for graphics acceleration without risking anything more than an hour or two of time setting it up. https://github.com/knazarov/homebrew-qemu-virgl

In Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end

yebyen·Oct 8, 2021

I didn't use this, but a similar/related project that is for MacOS as host OS, https://github.com/knazarov/homebrew-qemu-virgl Vagrant is an orthogonal tool to this, it is a VM orchestrator not an actual VM. What does this do: well, qemu doesn't have virgl support merged yet, so you need to go to some lengths to compile it for yourself. All of the other stuff (spice, virtio) is for "it should be a nice user experience and perform well" above and beyond simply being fast enough to use. In other words, you should be able to copy and paste between the host OS and the guest. You should be able to slide your mouse across the border of the VM window and do some clicking around then simply slide it back out and use your mouse with native host-OS windows again. It should have all of the features you expect and not force you to read a bunch of tut

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orials to find the features you expect from your desktop VM. These things are all not granted when you use qemu out of the box. I have this intense 25-lines "qemu" script for invoking qemu-system properly. It was enlightening but I'm not sure how much I was enriched by the process of actually figuring all this out. Quickemu is, I guess, for making figuring out all this stuff and making it easier to do (and on Linux.)

In Quickemu: Quickly create and run optimised Win-10,11/macOS/Linux on Linux