[vfio-users] Passthrough of the only GPU

[Koorik]

I havent tried this myself yet (gonna this weekend)

But this seems to include a way of unbinding and rebinding nvidia from host

Not my script - http://pastebin.com/rcnUZCv7

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Mark Weiman <mark.weiman at markzz.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 13:20 +0300, Yaroslav Isakov wrote:
> > Hello!
> > I'm considering in bying one Skylake HTPC, and it seems that it
> > doesn't support Intel GPU. So, I'm wonder if it's possible to
> > passthrough Nvidia GPU? I think that I'll need to disable framebuffer
> > completely to be able to unbind this device from the host.
>
> An issue may come up if you depend on Xorg for video on your host.
> Xorg, as far as I know, doesn't support binding and unbinding of video
> devices, so you will have issues exiting the VM and returning to Xorg.
>
> The best solution is to get a cheap second video card if possible and
> using that for the host.
>
> Mark Weiman
>
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