[ale] VMs sharing native GPU

Kyle Brieden kyle at txmoose.com
Wed May 9 12:16:03 EDT 2018


I did not know about this!  I'm definitely interested, though.  I'll go 
dig on it and if I find anything juicy, I'll put it back on the list.  
This is really exciting :D

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Very respectfully,
Kyle Brieden

On 08-05-2018 13:14, Jim Kinney wrote:
> There's some new NVidia stuff that supports virtual GPUs. It works
> similar to have VMs work, carve a big system into smaller systems.
> It's supported in Ovirt so it's supported by KVM. It does require
> rather new GPU and cuda 9+
> 
> On Tue, 2018-05-08 at 12:52 -0400, Kyle Brieden via Ale wrote:
> 
>> KVM/QEMU and Xen both support PCI Passthrough, but it's been my
>> understanding that PCI Passthrough assigns that resource directly to
>> the
>> guest/DomU.  Nothing, not even the hypervisor/Dom0 has access to it
>> anymore.  I don't think it'll be possible to "share" a PCI device
>> like
>> that with multiple VMs running at the same time.
>> 
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>> Very respectfully,
>> Kyle Brieden
>> 
>> On 08-05-2018 09:17, Dow Hurst via Ale wrote:
>>> Which hypervisor is best for PCI-E passthrough? I'd like to setup
>>> a shared GPU on a VM server with a virtualized Ubuntu and a MS Win
>>> instance that could share a GPU for accelerated graphics. I'm just
>>> looking to get pointed in a direction that is open source, but
>>> known to work. Sincerely, Dow ⚛Dow Hurst, Research Scientist 340
>>> Sullivan Science Bldg. Dept. of Chem. and Biochem. University of
>>> North Carolina at Greensboro PO Box 26170 Greensboro, NC
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