Research and application of GPU pass-through based on KVM in graphics workstation

DOI

10.2991/iwmecs-18.2018.76How to use a DOI?

Keywords

KVM/QEMU, vfio-pci, PCoIP, pass-through.

Abstract

Desktop cloud has become a research focus of cloud computing. As 3D rendering, scientific computing and large data fields on the requirements of high performance computing, end user take more and more high request to the cloud desktop. Yet in the desktop cloud, the simulation of virtual graphics can only be used to display 2D graphics, but not to accelerate graphics hardware. This paper mainly discusses KVM/QEMU PCI device passthrough so as to use GPU in the virtual machine, and use the PCoIP Zero Client at the terminal to meet desktop cloud latency and bandwidth requirements. In the case graphics workstation would be greatly enhance the virtual desktop performance, graphics designers can run graphics intensive applications from PCoIP zero Client. The pass-through technique involved in this article is vfio-pci.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Zhuangli Dong
AU  - Zhengbin Wang
AU  - Jinkun Yuan
PY  - 2018/04
DA  - 2018/04
TI  - Research and application of GPU pass-through based on KVM in graphics workstation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 3rd International Workshop on Materials Engineering and Computer Sciences (IWMECS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 354
EP  - 357
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iwmecs-18.2018.76
DO  - 10.2991/iwmecs-18.2018.76
ID  - Dong2018/04
ER  -