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I enable it by default
Do you mean hardware accelerated?
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
It can't be shared?
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
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.
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
You are awesome @Francisco
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.
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