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Looking Glass is an open source application that allows the use of a KVM
(Kernel-based Virtual Machine) configured for VGA PCI Pass-through without an
attached physical monitor, keyboard or mouse. This is the final step required to
move away from dual booting with other operating systems for legacy programs
that require high performance graphics.

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COMPRESSION

Unlike network based streaming applications, Looking Glass does not use any form
of compression or color space conversion, all frames are transferred to the
viewer (client application) in 32-bit RGBA without any transformations or
modifications. This is possible through the use of a shared memory segment which
enables extremely high throughput low latency guest to host communication.

Figure 1: Colors appear accurately on screen.


REQUIREMENTS


HOST REQUIREMENTS

Anything recent graphics device that supports OpenGL should do fine, the client
application does not perform any heavy graphical work.


GUEST REQUIREMENTS

At this time only Windows 10 is supported with any video card supporting DXGI
Desktop Duplication or the NVIDIA Capture API (NB: NvFBC requires a professional
card such as Quadro).


LICENSE

Looking Glass has been released under the GPL 2.0 license by Geoffrey McRae of
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