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title: 'Collabora Blog: A look at Vulkan extensions in Venus'
url: 'https://vulkan.org/news/auto-21277-9fc392b6667a9c9a7a7b9c39c86cc0b4'
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date: '2022-10-19'
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#  Collabora Blog: A look at Vulkan extensions in Venus 

  October 19th at 9:58pm

 Venus is a virtual Vulkan driver based on the Virtio-GPU protocol. Effectively a protocol on top of another protocol, it defines the serialization of Vulkan commands between guest and host. This blog covers details of the Venus driver, its components, and their relations in the context of extensions. 

 [ Read More  ](https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2022/10/19/a-look-at-vulkan-extensions-in-venus/)

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