Since I'm running 60-80 guest OSs per host, getting back 15-30% of my hosts CPU back used for GPU calls is significant. The latest Nvidia K2 card can be split into 32 vGPUs and each guest os can be given a vGPU which works for light to moderate GPU activities such as CAD or even light to moderate gaming, or VDI. VGPU is a NEW feature, which vitualizes the resources of a video card and splits them into groups. This is giving a video card to the guest, 1 dedicated video card per guest. VDGA passes the video card through to the guest OS from the host.

It requires a vib driver to be installed on the host and is meant for basic desktop apps, and offers a 15-30% offload capability (on a good day) This is more of an offload assist function rather than giving your guest OS a different video card. VSGA is a VMware specific framework that allows a the basic vmware tools driver to pass 3D WDDM 1.1 calls to a host video card.

There's a difference between those terms and technology. as I am hastily writing this and not reviewing it before posting. Sorry I don't have better news - perhaps someone else will have more experience, and better results in this area (I'd love to get this working as well).įorgive me for sounding blunt. It's possible you might be able to use some implementation of VNC, but I suspect the user experience would leave a lot to be desired if you could get it working. That said, Windows works well with HW accelerated graphics on both XenDesktop and Horizon.Īround this time I was also researching a means of directly connecting to the virtual desktop to work around XenDesktop, but did not have much luck. I ended up successfully implementing the same setup with VMware Horizon because their Horizon Agent is much farther along in Linux VDI support compared with XenDesktop's Linux VDA - through to say it was a little 'glitchy' feeling would be an under statement. Last year I failed in an attempt at getting a XenDesktop 7.6 + CentOS 7.1 + Nvidia GRID K1 VDI rolling due to lack of support in the XenDesktop Linux VDA 1.1 (agent that runs on the virtual desktop facilitating communication and control between the user connecting to the virtual desktop and the XenDesktop controller). I believe the only thing holding us back from this is the remote display protocol and client.

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