AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap" (www.phoronix.com)
from just_another_person@lemmy.world to linux@lemmy.ml on 25 Apr 04:26
https://lemmy.world/post/28675964

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/28675950

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stsquad@lemmy.ml on 25 Apr 05:32 next collapse

The other option is to use VirtIO with Native Context support as a software based partitioning scheme that is relatively lightweight compared to the mdev approach.

warmaster@lemmy.world on 26 Apr 05:01 collapse

ELI5?

apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml on 26 Apr 13:10 collapse

Software to allow partitioning gpu resources among multiple virtual machines instead of just assigning the one PCIe device to a single VM. Very useful for having a single GPU do 3D acceleration on a host and multiple guests at the same time.