nVidia Tesla P4 for vgpu and Plex encoding
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@olivierlambert
yes, download and extract. Don't forget the permission.Download free CitrixHypervisor-8.2.0-install-cd.iso from Citrix site
Open CitrixHypervisor-8.2.0-install-cd.iso with 7-zip, then unzip vgpu binary file from Packages->vgpu....rpm->vgpu....cpio->.->usr->lib64->xen->bin
Upload vgpu to XCP-ng host to /usr/lib64/xen/bin and made it executable chmod +x /usr/lib64/xen/bin/vgpu
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@austinw
I use these Windows 10 clients with UDS Enterprise VDI System. From October 2025, it will be forbidden to run Office on the terminal server. That's why we switched to virtual desktops.https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/deployoffice/endofsupport/windows-server-support
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@splastunov Do the AMD GPU's not require a license?
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@austinw said in nVidia Tesla P4 for vgpu and Plex encoding:
@splastunov Do the AMD GPU's not require a license?
Nope. These work easy out of the box. Installed the GPU on one of our servers yesterday.
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@austinw no licenses, but a lot of troubles.....
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@splastunov said in nVidia Tesla P4 for vgpu and Plex encoding:
@austinw no licenses, but a lot of troubles.....
Curious, what troubles?
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@mohammadm
I'm talking now about vGPU not passthrough- old drivers
- no way to monitor GPU load
- Sometimes the GPU on Dom0 stops responding and the only thing that can be done to solve this problem is to reboot the entire server with all the virtual machines on it.
and etc.... do not remember all troubles I had with it
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@splastunov said in nVidia Tesla P4 for vgpu and Plex encoding:
@mohammadm
I'm talking now about vGPU not passthrough- old drivers
- no way to monitor GPU load
- Sometimes the GPU on Dom0 stops responding and the only thing that can be done to solve this problem is to reboot the entire server with all the virtual machines on it.
and etc.... do not remember all troubles I had with it
I installed the Firepro S7150x2 yesterday without any issues. It's been about 24 hours, so far no issues. I do agree I am missing the nvidia-smi command to get a better overview.
Why is the support regarding vGPU so bad and mostly outdated
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I will have the opportunity to discuss more with AMD (on a regular basis, for some reasons), I'll try to see if I can connect to their GPU division
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@splastunov Dom0 would need to have a vGPU in this scenario?
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@olivierlambert As mentioned in another thread...Intel Flex GPU's seem primed for this. nVidia is closed and license greedy. AMD seems a little lost and wandering. Intel has said, "No licensing...Just use it." but they require some development.
It should be relatively easy to incorporate the Intel Flex GPU's, but I'm not sure if the newer kernels are required. That might be where the wheels fall off for now.
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@JamesG This would indeed be awesome! I would prefer going the Intel route. Any contacts there @olivierlambert ?
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From my perspective, there's literally money on the ground for any virtualization platform to pick up VDI with Intel. The GPU's are affordable and performant for VDI work. They currently work with Openshift and Proxmox is at work on it.
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@splastunov why do you extract the vgpu RPM rather than just installing the RPM directly?