[Intel-gfx] [Announcement] 2015-Q3 release of XenGT - a Mediated Graphics Passthrough Solution from Intel

[Jike Song]

On 11/19/2015 07:09 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 19/11/2015 09:40, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>>> But this code should be
>>>> minor to be maintained in libvirt.
>> As far I know libvirt only needs to discover those devices.  If they
>> look like sr/iov devices in sysfs this might work without any changes to
>> libvirt.
>
> I don't think they will look like SR/IOV devices.
>
> The interface may look a little like the sysfs interface that GVT-g is
> already using.  However, it should at least be extended to support
> multiple vGPUs in a single VM.  This might not be possible for Intel
> integrated graphics, but it should definitely be possible for discrete
> graphics cards.

Didn't hear about multiple vGPUs for a single VM before. Yes If we
expect same vGPU interfaces for different vendors, abstraction and
vendor specific stuff should be implemented.


> Another nit is that the VM id should probably be replaced by a UUID
> (because it's too easy to stumble on an existing VM id), assuming a VM
> id is needed at all.

For the last assumption, yes, a VM id is not necessary for gvt-g, it's
only a temporary implementation.

As long as libvirt is used, UUID should be enough for gvt-g. However,
UUID is not mandatory? What should we do if user don't specify an UUID
in QEMU cmdline?

>
> Paolo
>

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Thanks,
Jike