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Are you offering VGA with your KVM VPS offers?

HannanHannan Member, Host Rep

Hi guys,

I was wondering if you providers offering VGA passthrough with your KVM VM's? As by default, it does not come with VGA or Sounds on the VM's. There are some buyers who demand this.

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  • I enable it by default

  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    Do you mean hardware accelerated?

  • FHRFHR Member, Host Rep

    @FoxelVox said:
    I enable it by default

    You know you can passthrough one GPU to only one VM, right?

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  • @FHR said:

    @FoxelVox said:
    I enable it by default

    You know you can passthrough one GPU to only one VM, right?

    Yup, i mean i enable it by default when requested. For an additional one time fee you can get a GT710 for example

  • HannanHannan Member, Host Rep

    @FHR said:

    @FoxelVox said:
    I enable it by default

    You know you can passthrough one GPU to only one VM, right?

    It can't be shared?

  • FHRFHR Member, Host Rep

    @Hannan said:
    It can't be shared?

    Only expensive Nvidia Grid cards can be shared between multiple VMs.

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  • AnthonySmithAnthonySmith Member, Patron Provider

    FHR said: Only expensive Nvidia Grid cards can be shared between multiple VMs.

    VERY expensive...

  • @AnthonySmith said:

    FHR said: Only expensive Nvidia Grid cards can be shared between multiple VMs.

    VERY expensive...

    Inb4 niche market VM supplier picks up on demand

    Inb4 niche market VM supplier supplies demand

    Inb4 profit ???

  • FHRFHR Member, Host Rep
    edited April 2018

    @YokedEgg said:

    @AnthonySmith said:

    FHR said: Only expensive Nvidia Grid cards can be shared between multiple VMs.

    VERY expensive...

    Inb4 niche market VM supplier picks up on demand

    Inb4 niche market VM supplier supplies demand

    Inb4 profit ???

    inb4 bankruptcy

    Unless you are targeting large enterprises, providing a Grid-based solution makes absolutely zero sense. Buying 8 GTX1080, shoving them in a server and doing 1 GPU = 1 VM passthrough would be more powerful, useful and less expensive.

    One of these Tesla cards that can be used for Grid costs around $8000 and it seems like the technology also requires some bullshit licensing. Reading material

  • joepie91joepie91 Member, Patron Provider

    @FHR said:

    @Hannan said:
    It can't be shared?

    Only expensive Nvidia Grid cards can be shared between multiple VMs.

    I was recently told that Supposedly(tm) you can do shared hardware acceleration on any card with VMWare. I was unable to find much information about it, though, and I have no idea whether that claim is actually correct.

  • HannanHannan Member, Host Rep

    So one question arises. So you can't offer OpenGL 2 or Hardware Accelerated on these VM's?

  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    Hannan said: So one question arises. So you can't offer OpenGL 2 or Hardware Accelerated on these VM's?

    KVM doesn't handle it unless you give each VPS its own video card making it very expensive.

    VMWare has a "sort of" video card which is "good enough" for some people running gameservers/etc.

    Francisco

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  • HannanHannan Member, Host Rep

    You are awesome @Francisco

  • JanevskiJanevski Member
    edited April 2018

    Wasting power and heating up the server some more, so one user can mine a little bitcoin, seems like a bad idea.

  • HannanHannan Member, Host Rep

    @Janevski said:
    Wasting power and heating up the server some more, so one user can mine a little bitcoin, seems like a bad idea.

    The thing is some people are wanting for game servers

  • JanevskiJanevski Member
    edited April 2018

    @Hannan said:

    @Janevski said:
    Wasting power and heating up the server some more, so one user can mine a little bitcoin, seems like a bad idea.

    The thing is some people are wanting for game servers

    That's perhaps somewhat more acceptable, but more or less, the same applies.

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  • FranciscoFrancisco Top Host, Host Rep, Veteran

    Hannan said: The thing is some people are wanting for game servers

    Honestly I would say give vmware's built in video card a try. You won't be able to automate it but you could charge a bit more for it if it works.

    Actually buying video cards would make it so that node never, ever, posts a profit. Solus doesn't support any sort of PCI passthrough either.

    Francisco

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