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Windows 11 ARM 2D Graphics Acceleration not working (Virtio-GPU driver)
When I open an app in Windows 11, there is no rounded borders (they're square). I think Windows 11 has rounded corners, but I'm not sure whether this is UTM's fault or Windows 11. Why aren't the borders round? Is this UTM's fault or Windows 11's fault?
Windows 11 requires display drivers to be installed for the new visual effects like rounded window corners. Please install "SPICE Guest Tools and QEMU Drivers" from the Support page, then shut down your VM and change its graphics card to qxl-vga or virtio-gpu-pci.
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You'll need to provide more information so I can understand what is going on. Please add debug log and steps you did to get to the screenshot.
Config:
- CPU: Default
- CPU cores: 3
- QEMU Machine Properties: highmem=off,virtualization=on
- Memory: 3GB
- Arch: ARM64
- System: QEMU 6.1
- Graphics card: virtio-gpu-pci
Basically the same config, except for the graphics card. debug.log
Config looks good. What's supposed to happen with a virtio-gpu-pci + Windows guest is this: (VM start)
- EFI with UTM logo
- EFI has some text on it briefly
- "Display output is not active"
- Login screen appears
If this doesn't work, the drivers are not installed correctly.
K, so I'm back at the 'Display output is not active' part. How long is this supposed to last before the login screen?
It lasts as long as your VM takes to boot to the login screen - maybe five seconds on my machine. If it doesn't switch from that, the driver is not loading. You'll need to switch back to the previous graphics card you were using and re-install the driver.
I probably do need to reinstall the driver, since after one hour it's not loading.
I've tested this now with Windows 11 ARM as well and am also not seeing the rounded corners. I believe it is related to #3291 and it should work with x86 guest.
Here's what my dxdiag looks like when running Windows 11 ARM with the spice tools version 164.2.
It seems all the acceleration is enabled except "DirectX 12 Ultimate". Still, no rounded corners except the start menu.
I uninstalled & deleted the VirtIO driver using Device Manager and shut down the VM, changed from virtio-gpu-pci to virtio-ramfb and started the VM again. Now it uses "Microsoft Basic Display Driver" and has the same acceleration properties displayed in the dxdiag.
I do know another thing: in Parallels (I tried the 14 days free), there were rounded corners for the apps.
@Daniyal-Warraich Parallels have their own closed source backend and both 2D and 3D graphics acceleration. UTM / QEMU on Mac doesn't have this (yet) in a way that works with Windows guests. We already have great 2D and 3D OpenGL acceleration available for Linux guests.
I've tested Windows 11 x64 now and it also has no rounded corners. Tested with virtio-vga, virtio-ramfb and virtio-gpu-pci display card options, with the spice-guest-tools-0.164.2.iso drivers.
When using anything but virtio-vga, resolution changes with window resize and manual both stop working. Possibly related to #3291 however the virtio-vga doesn't work with ARM guest.
I do know another thing: in Parallels (I tried the 14 days free), there were rounded corners for the apps.
a bit off topic I know, but: Have you tried VMWare Fusion Technology Preview? It's not officially supported, but it can run Windows 11 ARM64, even though it's without their tools. I wanted to know if the apps are running normally there, as opposed to QEMU & Parallels.
@brunocastello don't you need to sign up for it, like give your home address and such?
@brunocastello don't you need to sign up for it, like give your home address and such?
I did sign up, but I did not provide real data for my profile. Anyway, the Fusion Tech Preview (for M1) is free to try out. Before I moved to a M1 Mac, I was using a free VMware Fusion version on my Intel Mac, for which I also signed up.
Well... are the native apps running as well? Calculator, Microsoft Store... ?
Do we have any development status of Windows 11 ARM side with UTM as of now?
Last time I tried, It did boot successfully, but I had no use for it because all the default apps (including Microsoft Store) were refusing to open and run. And then there is the rounded corners missing.
@brunocastello I don't actually remember, since I deleted the VM to save some space.
Sorry for hijacking this issue but is there an open issue where I can follow the progress on bringing DirectX accelerated graphics on Windows 10 or 11 when running on an arm64 host?
No, there is no way, nor any work to bring DirectX accelerated graphics to it being made. It is what it is. Sorry to put down your hopes for it.
Upstream QEMU (outside of UTM scope) needs to bring Virgl3D support for Windows (currently only Linux) and write windows drivers for it to happen. And AFAIK there is no work from them being made for it, or else I'd have read about it on phoronix or reddit.
No, there is no way, nor any work to bring DirectX accelerated graphics to it being made. It is what it is. Sorry to put down your hopes for it.
Upstream QEMU (outside of UTM scope) needs to bring Virgl3D support for Windows (currently only Linux) and write windows drivers for it to happen. And AFAIK there is no work from them being made for it, or else I'd have read about it on phoronix or reddit.
Thanks for your quick reply. Then it's UTM for Linux and Parallels for Windows I guess☺️