It’d be great of this meant SR-IOV for all GPUs, but this seems like it only allows for sharing of a GPU to multiple guests. And even then, with most of the driver being on the GPU this might not help regular consumer GPUs at all (features being disabled in firmware). But I really don’t know anything about what this actually means.
Even if it is minor (and like you, I don’t know whether it is or not), Nvidia opening their source, even if only little by little, is probably still a good thing.
Agreed. It seems like Nvidia is under pressure by their commercial customers for better, directly integrated open source drivers.
There is alot of demand for this kind of simplified virtualization infrastructure in the host side.
Would that allow me to split my main GPU for my host and my VM so I can play trough looking-glass? Currently running a 4070Ti and a 4060Ti in the same tower which is quite stupid as I basically have one of them idling all the time.
Also trying to avoid this setup
Don’t you have integrated graphics?
I do not but I also want to be able to play on the host and in the VM whenever I want so a weak GPU for the host was out of the question. I tried to use a 970 first as the host GPU and giving the 4070Ti to the VM only when starting up the VM but that never worked.
Can someone dumb it down for me what this means for people at home? Any impact on Linux gaming?
Pretty much nothing, except that NVIDIA doesn’t care about the average gamer on Linux, only corps
Ooh so nothing to see here
Isnt this literally the reason why SOG Mutahar said he would switch to windows? This is great news.