Has anyone played with a Quadro A6000 for running GPU intensive workloads on a VM using the GPU virtualization feature?
Can you share your experience, especially if you’ve done something like scientific computing on a linux VM and gaming on the windows VM?
What are the pros and cons to GPU virtualization vs VFIO with multiple cards?
I’ve been dual booting Ubuntu/Windows 10 for awhile and am considering just virtualizing so that I don’t have to restart my computer every time I need to do something for 5 min on one OS or the other.
Outside of VFIO, all of NVidia’s GPU Virtualization features require a paid component. That’d be the biggest negative I can see. VFIO with multiple cards is pretty good especially when combined with lookingglass + spice. Then you dont even need to have a dedicated monitor / keyboard the VM just runs in a window or can be made full screen etc. However, the draw back with VFIO is that it isnt simple to give the card back to the host OS for use without a reboot. So if both OS’s need the Quadro, that’d be a limiting factor there. All that said, if these things are paying the bills and workload needs both, the cost of something like vDWS may not be too off putting.