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On 01/19/2015 02=3A33 AM=2C lof yer wrote=3A
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=3E Since I recently saw cloudstack have add this=28
=3E https=3A//cwiki=2Eapache=2Eorg/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/GPU+and+vG=
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=3E is released=2E
=3E If ovirt add this=2C it=27ll be very competitive for ovirt in VDI platf=
orms=2E
=3E
See below the response I got about 1 year ago=2C I don=27t know the current=
plans/status=2E=2E=2E
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=3E Subject=3A =09Re=3A =5BSpice-devel=5D =5BUsers=5D desktop virtualizatio=
n and GPU
=3E support
=3E Date=3A =09Wed=2C 16 Oct 2013 14=3A08=3A47 +0200
=3E From=3A =09David Ja=9Aa =3Cdjasa=40redhat=2Ecom=3E
=3E Reply-To=3A =09spice-devel=40lists=2Efreedesktop=2Eorg=2C users =3Cuser=
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=3E Hi=2C
=3E
=3E I=27m afraid that none of these cards will work=2E IIRC it was explaine=
d for
=3E nVidia approach that it would be necessary to add their closed-source=
=3E code to qemu which is not going to happen=2E
=3E You might have better luck with AMD card =22passthrough=22 approach but=
I=27m
=3E not sure if GPUs can be passed through qemu/kvm and if so=2C how the
=3E GPU-rendered image then gets displayed=2E So YMMV and don=27t expect mu=
ch=2E
=3E
=3E There is a WIP effort for qemu though that is hardware vendor agnostic=
-
=3E it=27s based on creation of virtual GPU in qemu called Virgil that pass=
es
=3E 3D drawing commands to GPU on host=2E The project is in initial stage=
=3E though so it won=27t be ready even for testing for quite some time=2E F=
WIW=2C
=3E there has been discussion about it on spice-devel in recent days and it=
=3E will be presented on upcoming KVM forum so you can get pretty clear
=3E picture about its status from these sources=2E
=3E
=3E HTH=2C
=3E
=3E David
Met vriendelijke groet=2C With kind regards=2C
Jorick Astrego
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code to qemu which is not going to happen=2E
You might have better luck with AMD card =22passthrough=22 approach but I=
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There is a WIP effort for qemu though that is hardware vendor agnostic -
it=27s based on creation of virtual GPU in qemu called Virgil that passes=
3D drawing commands to GPU on host=2E The project is in initial stage
though so it won=27t be ready even for testing for quite some time=2E FWIW=
=2C
there has been discussion about it on spice-devel in recent days and it
will be presented on upcoming KVM forum so you can get pretty clear
picture about its status from these sources=2E
HTH=2C
David
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