Miscellaneous

Does VMware have GPU passthrough?

Does VMware have GPU passthrough?

VMware Workstation 15 does not support GPU pass-through at the moment. The only VMware product that does support it is VMware vSphere. Even if it was supported, there isn’t any way to pass through a GPU that is being used by the OS the hypervisor is running on, or you would lose the display on the parent OS.

How do I use Nvidia GPU with VMware?

If you are using vSphere 6.5 or later and an NVIDIA card:

  1. In the vSphere Web Client, navigate to Host > Configure > Hardware > Graphics > Graphics Device > Edit icon. The Edit Host Graphics Settings window appears.
  2. Select Shared Direct for vGPU, or Shared for vSGA.

How do I enable hardware acceleration in VMware?

Select a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Library window and click Settings. Under System Settings in the Settings window, click Display. Select the Accelerate 3D graphics check box. The version of DirectX supported by your hardware version is displayed.

Does ESXi support GPU passthrough?

If your GPU requires 16 GB or more of memory mapping, in the BIOS settings of the ESXi host, enable the GPU for passthrough. In the vSphere Client, right-click on the ESXi host and select Settings. On the Configure tab, select Hardware > PCI Devices, and click Configure Passthrough.

What is a GPU passthrough?

GPU passthrough is a technology that allows the Linux kernel to directly present an internal PCI GPU to a virtual machine. The device acts as if it were directly driven by the VM, and the VM detects the PCI device as if it were physically connected.

Can VMware player use GPU?

VMware has supported the use of physical GPUs in virtual machines (VMs) since View 5.3 by allowing a GPU to either be dedicated to a single VM with Virtual Dedicated Graphics Acceleration (vDGA) or shared amongst many VMs with Virtual Shared Graphics Acceleration (vSGA).

Can I use GPU on VMware?

How do I enable GPU passthrough?

On the Configure tab, select Hardware > PCI Devices, and click Configure Passthrough. In the Edit PCI Device Availability dialog box, in the ID column, select the check box for the GPU device. Click OK. The GPU is displayed on the Passthrough-enabled devices tab.

How do I use GPU passthrough?

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client, right-click on the ESXi host and select Settings.
  2. On the Configure tab, select Hardware > PCI Devices, and click Configure Passthrough.
  3. In the Edit PCI Device Availability dialog box, in the ID column, select the check box for the GPU device.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Reboot the ESXi host.

What is needed for GPU passthrough?

Attention! Any kernel version from 4.15 or higher should work for a Ryzen passthrough (except versions 5.1 and 5.2 including all subversions). used kernel is at least 4.15 (check via uname -r ) used Nvidia driver is at least 415 (you can check via “additional drivers” and install e.g. like this)

When does ESXi 6.5 passthrough to Plex VM?

Oct 23, 2017 20:26:03.083 [0x7fd8b6ffb700] DEBUG – Codecs: hardware transcoding: opening hw device failed – probably not supported by this system, error: Invalid argument Oct 23, 2017 20:26:03.083 [0x7fd8b6ffb700] ERROR – get – invalid frameRate value: 23.976

What happens if I passthrough video card to VM?

While some virtual machines expose generic 3D acceleration to the guest OS as a virtual driver, this does not include support for accelerated video decoding or encoding. But I wanted to find out what would happen if I just passthough the Video Card to the VM?

Why is my ESXi stuck after rebooting?

After I rebooted I thought the ESXi was hung cause it just showed the following on the boot up: This is actually expected since the Hypervisor enables the passthough at this point and you won’t see the boot up process any more. This was discussed in stuck after reboot: “vmkapei loaded successfully”.

How to set svga.present to false in VMX?

As I was looking around for a way to accomplish this, I ran into a parameter in the vmx file called svga.present. I also some folks try to use that parameter: So I decided to try it out. Virtual Machines -> VM -> Actions -> Edit Settings -> VM Options -> Advanced -> Configuration Parameters -> Edit Configuration -> Set svga.present to FALSE: