Geforce graphics cards support virtualization

Nvidia has long separated ordinary consumers and the professional market with its various series of graphics cards. The Geforce series is aimed at simpler tasks in the form of games and software, while Quadro and Tesla have been adapted more for workstations and server environments. Previously, only the professional models were possible to run with virtual machines, but now the Geforce series also receives some support for it.

According to Nvidia’s support page, “GPU virtual machine passthrough” is still in beta, but enabled. It allows Linux users to use Geforce series graphics cards in virtual sets of Windows 10. It is useful especially for playing or testing code depending on Windows on a computer with Linux as the primary operating system.

The support opens up greater opportunities for virtualization, but it is not without limitations. Among other things, only one virtual machine can be used at a time and it does not implement support for “single root input / output virtualization (SR-IOV)”. SR-IOV is used to make a PCI Express device be interpreted as several different, for example to allow several virtual machines to use the same graphics card at the same time. To be able to use it, a graphics card from Nvidia’s Tesla series is still required.

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For this to work, you need two graphics cards, one for Linux hosts and one for the virtual Windows environment. Virtualization is enabled for all Geforce series graphics cards supported by the Geforce 465.89 Game Ready driver for Windows 10.


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