[ovirt-users] When will ovirt add GPU/vGPU support in the admin portal ?

[Jorick Astrego]

On 01/19/2015 02:33 AM, lof yer wrote:
>
> Since I recently saw cloudstack have add this(
> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/GPU+and+vGPU+support+for+CloudStack+Guest+VMs
> ).
> And iGVT(
> https://01.org/zh/xen/blogs/wangbo85/2014/intel-gvt-gxengt-pubic-release?langredirect=1)
> is released.
> If ovirt add this, it'll be very competitive for ovirt in VDI platforms.
>
See below the response I got about 1 year ago, I don't know the current
plans/status...

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: 	Re: [Spice-devel] [Users] desktop virtualization and GPU
> support
> Date: 	Wed, 16 Oct 2013 14:08:47 +0200
> From: 	David Jaša <djasa at redhat.com>
> Reply-To: 	spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, users <users at ovirt.org>
> CC: 	spice-devel at lists.freedesktop.org, users <users at ovirt.org>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm afraid that none of these cards will work. IIRC it was explained for
> nVidia approach that it would be necessary to add their closed-source
> code to qemu which is not going to happen.
> You might have better luck with AMD card "passthrough" approach but I'm
> not sure if GPUs can be passed through qemu/kvm and if so, how the
> GPU-rendered image then gets displayed. So YMMV and don't expect much.
>
> There is a WIP effort for qemu though that is hardware vendor agnostic -
> it's based on creation of virtual GPU in qemu called Virgil that passes
> 3D drawing commands to GPU on host. The project is in initial stage
> though so it won't be ready even for testing for quite some time. FWIW,
> 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.
>
> HTH,
>
> David




Met vriendelijke groet, With kind regards,

Jorick Astrego

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