Impressive! I thought emulation would be embarrassingly slow - my attempts to get Windows VMs running on macOS on Apple Silicon resulted in single-digit FPS just rendering the desktop. What dark arts are they conducting?

[–] stsquad@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

FEX redirects graphics library calls to their native equivalents. This substantially reduces the amount of translated code you need to execute.

slp did a nice demo at KVM Forum last month. https://kvm-forum.qemu.org/2024/The_many_faces_of_virtio-gpu_F4XtKDi.pdf and https://youtu.be/10Ztv0UI5I0?si=19KPcA6wGbXM3IsS

[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

That’s ridiculously cool. Really appreciate you sharing that.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What a legendary team. What can we expect in term of graphic performance? Will it take advantage of the powerful mac GPU if you have one? I ain't no programmer but I admire what these people are doing with reverse engineering.

[–] slug@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

so is there a way to try asahi on my m1 macbook without overwriting my macos install?

[–] smud@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, asahi always installs to a separate partition so your base os shouldn't be affected

[–] slug@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

and it's easily reversible from macOS's perspective? i'm familiar enough with partition OS installs (remember boot camp?) but there's so many new security "features" these days

[–] smud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yup it's stupid simple. All you have to do is delete the linux partition and expand back the macos partition.