In the future the developers working on the task feel they are close to having discrete AMD and NVIDIA GPU support but there are some remaining driver issues with not all host drivers unloading cleanly, the NVIDIA driver having VGA arbiter lock issues, the i915 VGA arbiter being broken, and integrated graphics processors not being supported as well as discrete GPUs.
There are some AMD Radeon and NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards now in working configurations, the Linux 3.12 kernel features a PCI bus/slot reset interface, and QEMU 1.7 includes VFIO co-assigned device reset, better ROM handling, and coherency/NoSnoop fixes.
#Qemu vga passthrough pdf#
The PDF slides cover the VFIO VGA progress at length and provide a nice overview, but overall the current state is some things are beginning to work but there's still quirks and other hardware difficulties to work through with graphics cards not being like conventional PCI adapters that have generally already worked well with Linux VFIO. This method is different from the virtual GPU methods where the 3D/drawing calls are passed onto the host operating system drivers for rendering but the guest VM has complete (and secure) control of the graphics card.īesides Virgil3D, another one of the interesting presentations at last month's KVM Forum was a presentation by Red Hat's Alex Williamson on the latest VGA assignment support using VFIO. Coming about more recently has been VFIO-based VGA pass-through for QEMU where a discrete graphics card can be assigned and controlled by the guest virtual machine. With Xen virtualization it's possible to pass graphics cards through to guests and Ubisoft was even playing around with the Xen feature. Besides virtual GPU drivers like the proprietary components within VMware and VirtualBox virtualization stacks and the under-development Virgil3D for QEMU, another option for those seeking 3D/GPU hardware acceleration support within VM guests is VGA pass-through.
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