vGPU unlock without licensing server?

More of just a curiosity then a necessity, in Craft Computing’s recent video (give it a watch if you haven’t 12 Gamers on 3 GPUs?!? - Cloud Gaming Server Pt.8 - YouTube) he showed off 3 1070ti’s with the vGPU unlock. But he did it without a license server by tricking windows into thinking that the vGPU was a quadro p6000, I know he is going to do a guide soon but I really want to know how you would do this [the quadro part](even though I don’t even own a nvidia GPU lol) Preferably on Linux if you can. I have been searching for about 30 minutes now and have not figured out how he did it. Thanks in advance

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you use kvm to change the pcie device id, that’s prettymuch it

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Really? I didn’t think that it would be that easy thanks

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Wait I just realized, why wouldn’t you just stick with the 1070 id or go to a 1050ti, why a quadro and wouldn’t the nvidia driver know that something is up?

Has to be close hardware wise too. might have to load the bios via KVm as well

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It’s hugely amazing that this kind of thing works!

I’m anxiously angry that it requires trickery like this, a loophole like this might be patched in the future and could make this infeasible without extortionate licensing fees.

Hopefully competition and common sense prevail and sr-iov becomes a standard supported feature of all GPUs soon.

As an alternative - you can run Grid K1 / K2’s on esxi up to 6.7 I believe without needing any licensing.
VIB for the esxi hosts and driver for the Grid cards are free to download from nvidia.

I know its not what the thread is ‘theoretically’ about - but its secondary to this.

Yes, I am super interested in this also. Waiting for the next video that shows us peons, how.

Particularly as he says he made it work for Proxmox as well.

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