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Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver stack that may depend upon a specific kernel version or where a Flatpak runtime may be end-of-life, dealing with GPU drivers in Flatpaks can be a burden. A solution being explored is GPU virtualization to deal with those GPU driver handling challenges while still providing robust and secure GPU access.

GPU virtualization is being explored by leveraging VirtIO-GPU and Mesa Venus to avoid having to deal with driver-specific runtime extensions and other complications. Sebastian Wick elaborated in a blog post on Monday