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    vGPU - which graphics card supported?

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    • V Offline
      vdarkobar
      last edited by vdarkobar

      https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/wiki/MxGPU

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      • mpyuskoM Offline
        mpyusko
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        I am running a WX7100 under XCP-ng 7.6. It only allows full GPU passthrough. So you can run multiple VMS on the server, but only one at a time can be assigned the GPU. I have tested it to work properly with Server 2016 std, Server 2019 std, and Win10 pro. Currently I have it crunching BOINC under win10pro and here are the stats.... BOINCstats for Norby

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          Zaiban
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          Hello,

          We are using XCP-ng at our University, and are looking to purchase either Radeon Instinct MI50 or MI60 GPU:s (running on HPE ProLiant Gen10).

          So am I correct to assume that vGPU works for these AMD cards? Just want to confirm, as the hardware costs quite a bit 🙂

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            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
            last edited by

            All the input you can have in within this thread. We don't have this kind of hardware here so I can't tell you myself.

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              biztems @Arvee
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              Arvee

              Do you remember during your testing of the S7150 in MxGPU mode if it supported 4K resolutions for guests?

              Thanks!

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                Arvee
                last edited by

                biztems

                I did not test 4K but it looks like it is at least supported by the drivers. Not sure how well the S7150 would do with that as it is fairly old, but it appears to be there.

                mxgpu.JPG

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                  biztems @Arvee
                  last edited by

                  Arvee said in vGPU - which graphics card supported?:

                  biztems

                  I did not test 4K but it looks like it is at least supported by the drivers. Not sure how well the S7150 would do with that as it is fairly old, but it appears to be there.

                  mxgpu.JPG

                  Thank you very much for your help! It should be okay - we're not going to do CAD or anything on it, just large pictures and 4K videos (and those should be decoded entirely in hardware by the S7150, AFAIK).

                  Thanks again!

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                  • olivierlambertO Online
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                    last edited by

                    biztems keep us posted please 🙂 We'd like to know the result!

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                      biztems @olivierlambert
                      last edited by

                      olivierlambert said in vGPU - which graphics card supported?:

                      biztems keep us posted please 🙂 We'd like to know the result!

                      Yep, just bought one, will report soon 🙂

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                      • olivierlambertO Online
                        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                        last edited by

                        Thanks, with this info we'll be able to update the Wiki to provide more guidance for people who wonder about those great GPUs and XCP-ng support 🙂

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                          biztems @olivierlambert
                          last edited by

                          olivierlambert said in vGPU - which graphics card supported?:

                          Thanks, with this info we'll be able to update the Wiki to provide more guidance for people who wonder about those great GPUs and XCP-ng support 🙂

                          Welp, we've already encountered our first issue - the MxGPU supplemental pack expects kernel-4.4. It also seems AMD isn't really intent on updating it anymore (last update was more than a year ago) and the V340 only supports VMware (boo!), which paints quite a dire outlook for our VDI dreams on XCP-ng 😞

                          We're rolling back to XCP-ng 7.6 in the meanwhile - but would there be any way of running kernel-4.4 on XCP-ng 8.0+?

                          Cheers!

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                          • olivierlambertO Online
                            olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
                            last edited by

                            IIRC, it was doable to rebuild a pack ourselves to work with a more recent kernel 🙂 At least, everything is on GitHub, so except if there is something very specific that won't apply on a more recent kernel, we could do it!

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                              stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
                              last edited by

                              To complement: you may want to follow this github issue: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/200

                              olivierlambert created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                              open Build AMD MxGPU and package them #200

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                                darabontors
                                last edited by darabontors

                                Hello guys, hello dear Olivier,

                                Huge thanks for all your work regarding XCP-ng. I recently started using it and deploying it in production. Open Source technology really helps SMBs in my part of the world (Transylvania, Romania). XCP-ng has been great so far.

                                Regarding the nVidia Grid K1/K2 cards, I believe there is a huge business opportunity here. I don't have all the information but here is my idea:

                                nVidia Gamestream technology (video codec, remote protocol) is a dream. It enables 4K 60 fps streaming at very low latency. Unfortunately it relies on nVidia GTX cards and is only doable with GPU passthrough. If the Grid cards would be able to emulate this kind of behavior, it would be a game changer for the VDI industry in my opinion. For this to work, I believe the VM and the OS on it would need to be able to use the GeForce experience software and "think" it's running a proper GeForce GTX card.

                                Maybe I'm greaming big here, but think of this:
                                There is a great opensource software called MoonLight. It is an opensource port of the proprietary nVidia GameStream protocol. It enables small single board computers like the Raspberry Pi to act as a high-end thin client. This is working today, but with single hardware passed-through GPUs of the GeForce GTX kind. If this could be done with the Grid cards, enabling multiple VMs to utilize GameStream as if they would have a GeForce card, this would mean a total disruption of the current VDI market. Grid cards are as cheap as $170-$200.

                                Unfortunately there are some closed source software in the mix, the biggest question being the ability of the GameStream technology to work with Grid cards. nVidia has it's own game streaming cloud solution and I am almost certain they are using Grid cards with their GameStream tech. The only question is how can it be done.

                                Citrix HDX is pretty expensive, vmWare Horizon with it's own high-end graphics protocol is also expensive. If it would work with XCP-ng, the HighEnd workstation VM market would have a new player with a disruptive solution.

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                                  imtrobin
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                                  vGPU require drivers on xen , which will need to work with Nvidia. Unlikely you can get it work as an open source. If you can get passthrough working, I will be very happy.

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                                    lightspeed
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                                    We have a new expansion project underway. We currently use the FirePro 7150x2 with Xen 7.2 and are using XCP-ng latest in the new infrastructure build. I just wanted to check in and see if it's in the roadmap plans to support the MxGPU drivers as time goes on with XCP-ng? I did follow the github issue related to this and see activity happening, but wasn't sure if this was "best effort" type of support or planned?

                                    In other-words, if we spend $$$ to continue building on FirePro MxGPU platform, are we eventually going to get stuck without ability to upgrade?

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                                    • olivierlambertO Online
                                      olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                                      As long there is drivers provided by AMD, I think there's no problem to build them and include them into XCP-ng 🙂

                                      Maybe the real question is more on AMD side of things.

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                                        darabontors
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                                        Hello,

                                        Has anyone managed to get XCP-ng 8.1 working with AMD S7150 MxGPU?
                                        I got it working on 7.6 with the 1.05 AMD driver but 8.1 with the new 2.0 AMD driver doesn't give any virtual functions.
                                        Does someone have a working setup with XCP-ng 8.1 + AMD S7150(x2) ?

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                                          stormi Vates 🪐 XCP-ng Team
                                          last edited by

                                          Citrix and AMD apparently haven't provided any updated MxGPU packages for 8.0/8.1, so it relies on us and on the community to do it. There's been work on this but no working result for now: https://github.com/xcp-ng/xcp/issues/200

                                          olivierlambert created this issue in xcp-ng/xcp

                                          open Build AMD MxGPU and package them #200

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                                          • savage79S Offline
                                            savage79
                                            last edited by

                                            I tested with xcp-ng 8.1 with latest AMD Driver 2.0 (6/22/2020) and It works fine. But I don't know how can I see the temperature of AMD 7150 card

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