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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I've been out of the loop for some years, could you eli5 for me please?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

SR-IOV allows you to share your GPU among many virtual machines in much the same way that you are able to share a single CPU among many VMs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Thanks for the info. I guess that's not that essential for gaming but more for AI specific tasks?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not really ai specifically but VMs. Maybe you want a Windows vm for gaming with a gpu, just give it a slice and it's fine. Maybe you want lots of VMs for all various different office clients, split off sections of the gpu and you can have a bunch of hardware accelerated thin clients

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I've never thought about that, but it makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!

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