On Mon, 2017-02-20 at 09:17 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > > Nevertheless it could be appropriate for certain use cases. I'm > > thinking DirectX games that are not too demanding but won't run under > > the KVM emulated GPU, assuming such things exist. It would presumably > > also be a lot easier to set up. I for one am still looking at VFIO with > > a certain amount of trepidation. > > The vGPU infrastructure in v4.10 is effectively just a software > extension of VFIO to expose software constructed devices to the user > rather than physical devices. You're relying far more on a well > crafted and robust vendor driver with mediated device based vGPUs than > the hardware exposure and isolation of physical devices with VFIO. If > you think physical IGD assignment is trepidatious, perhaps you want to > stand clear of KVMGT for a while...
I'm sure you're right, and I don't think my current system (i7-3770K) would support KVMGT anyway, however I'm encouraged by the prospect that somewhere down the line all this could become more end-user friendly than it currently is. poc _______________________________________________ vfio-users mailing list vfio-users@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/vfio-users
