VirtualVulkan

A set of utilities for running Vulkan API commands remotely over the network, while presenting the results locally on the client.

This allows easily using a remote GPU for executing GPU-accelerated Vulkan programs, without sharing the program's code with the server providing GPU compute resources.

Components

This repository contains 4 components:

• A protobuf library containing definitions required for calling Vulkan API functions over the network using gRPC.
• A library for serializing the parameters of Vulkan API calls to gRPC.
• A server binary that calls requested Vulkan API functions and returns the results of the functions.
• A Vulkan Layer that intercepts certain Vulkan API calls and sends them to the Vulkan server, while still presenting the results using the client's GPU.

Building

The project uses CMake as a build system.

The following CMake options affect the build:

• VVK_LAYER specifies whether to build the VirtualVulkan Layer.

Installation

The install directory should be configured using CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

For documentation on the proper install directory, consult the official Khronos documentation on where implicit layers should be installed.