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Same. The only downside to Nvidia is they go out of their way to prevent sharing mainstream / consumer cards via virtualization. So it's not easy to drop a 2080
by technofiend 6y ago
Same. The only downside to Nvidia is they go out of their way to prevent sharing mainstream / consumer cards via virtualization. So it's not easy to drop a 2080 into an ESXi host and then share it to various VMs. Even applying the fixes on Virtual Ghetto doesn't work.
- navaati 6y agoWhat ? I'm permanently sharing a 2080Ti into a Windows VM. It's kvm, not esxi, but still, no reason for it to be a blocker. Yes I had to apply a workaround but this part was easy.
- technofiend 6y agoReally? Dude please share your workaround.
- navaati 6y agoYes (I was on my phone, that’s why I kept my secrets, sorry :) ). Basically that’s how you do it in a libvirt environment: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Video_card_driver_virtualisation_detection https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM.... In qemu terms this translates, I _think_, to having "hv-vendor-id=Nvidia43Fixx,kvm=off" in your "-cpu" line. So don’t know how to do that with esxi but all in all you need to change your cpu hardware vendor id to some random string (that may or may not need to be 12 chars long) and not explicitely expose the fact that you’re a VM.