Bug 106760

Summary: Support WDDM 1.3 and embedded display in qxl-wddm-dod for an Optimus Windows guest hybrid setup
Product: Spice Reporter: oblitz
Component: win32 qxl xddmAssignee: Spice Bug List <spice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Description oblitz 2018-05-31 20:40:49 UTC 
There have been progress to get an Nvidia dGPU to work in a Windows guest in an Optimus setup for the past year. A hacky OVMF patch [1] has allowed the dGPU to initialize properly, bypassing the error 43, and allowed certain applications to make use of the dGPU at a near-native performance.

However, the number of applications that are clever enough to make use of the dGPU seem rare. A reason for this could be due to a lack of proper hybrid setup where an integrated/embedded display panel is not detected.

A potential solution to this could be to modify the qxl-wddm-dod driver to WDDM 1.3 and expose the emulated display as an embedded display. [2,3,4]

[1] https://github.com/jscinoz/optimus-vfio-docs/issues/2
[2] https://github.com/jscinoz/optimus-vfio-docs/issues/2#issuecomment-390550145
[3] https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2018-April/msg00019.html
[4] https://reddit.com/r/VFIO/comments/8gv60l/current_state_of_optimus_muxless_laptop_gpu/
Comment 1 GitLab Migration User 2018-06-05 14:17:15 UTC 
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