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I've managed to get virgl 3D acceleration running in QEMU/KVM, and now I want to see if I can get it running with multiple displays. However when I add more heads to the Video Device Display 1 is mirrored onto the other displays rather than extended, no matter what I do with the settings. Does anyone know how to to get this working? I can't do GPU passthrough as my CPU doesn't have integrated graphics, and I don't have the space or the budget for another GPU.

Host Machine

OS Arch
Desktop KDE
Display Server x11
CPU AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
RAM 64GB

Guest Machine

OS BigLinux
Desktop KDE
Display Server x11

How I got virgl working with NVIDIA

  1. I set up the VM normally through virt-manager's wizard.
  2. I installed the ISO, then shut the VM down after loading the desktop on the installed system.
  3. In Details view, with XML editing enabled in virt-manager:
    1. Under Video Virtio I enable 3D acceleration.
    2. Under Display Spice I set Listen type to None and leave OpenGL unchecked. (I have found leaving Listen type as Address works too, but both the tutorial I followed for this and the warning that comes up when you enable OpenGL tell me to leave it as None, so I do)
    3. Under Overview I switch to the XML tab
      1. I delete <gl/> from the existing <graphics/> device if it exists.
      2. Below the existing <graphics/> device I add the following:
    <graphics type="egl-headless">
      <gl rendernode="/dev/dri/renderD128"/>
    </graphics>

Now when I start the VM, I open Lutris and under Preferences I check Hardware Information, and it shows that virgl is working and lists my GPU.

What I did to add more displays to the VM

  1. After enabling virgl with the above steps, I shut down the VM.
  2. I go to Details, and under Video Virtio's XML tab I change the heads value to 3, because I want 3 displays.
  3. After booting the VM to desktop, I enter virt-viewer -a in a terminal on the host to launch it in attach mode. (With Listen type set to Address I have the option to launch it normally or use remote-viewer instead)
  4. To initialise the extra displays, from the first display window (which should be initialised) I check and uncheck one of the additional displays.

Weird details about the results of those steps

The displays are automatically arranged to be side, but what I see is an imperfect mirror of Display 1 on the other displays - the other displays only seem to update when something changes, and then not always. Despite showing Display 1, the other displays do at least act like I want them to behind what's displayed; I can test this by arranging the display windows next to each other on the host, dragging a window between the displays on the guest and then dragging where the titlebar should be on the extra display.

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