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What you are saying does to appear to be true. See here [0] and [1]. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF https://wiki.archlinux.o

• Scramblejams 11y ago
  As I understand it, Nvidia cards are working right now because recent versions of Qemu removed certain hints that Nvidia drivers were using to detect that they were being run in a VM. I would expect this situation to last only until Nvidia catches on and updates their drivers.
  • jzelinskie 11y ago
    This is true. You can see a list of successful build configurations here[0] and there are plenty of nVidia machines. [0]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LnGpTrXalwGVNy0PWJDURhyxa3sgqkGXmvNCIvIMenk/edit#gid=2 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LnGpTrXalwGVNy0PWJDU...
    • Scramblejams 11y ago
      The length of time this situation has persisted has started to make me wonder. I wonder if for Nvidia it's really about making sure the consumer cards don't work on VMware and the other commercial hypervisors. I'd figure they're protecting their enterprise sales, and my guess is KVM and Xen don't have much enterprise market share, Amazon possibly notwithstanding. So if these cards run on KVM, maybe they don't care. Still, I personally would be reluctant to drop big money on a consumer Nvidia card thinking that I'd always have the ability to use it under KVM with the latest driver. Nvidia could choose to close this particular hole at any time.
• xienze 11y ago
  It's definitely true for ESXi.