WanjohiRyan
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Comment · 1 month ago
Probably this (?) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49609389
Comment · 1 month ago
Thank you for the feedback... i will do that
Comment · 1 month ago
Fair point, we still have a long way to go in terms of security AND being suitable for everyday use.
However, nvgpu is meant to be used in PCI passthrough in scenarios where you would want to run and share your GPU across multiple KVM guests, or you don't want to detach the GPU from the host, and plug it into the VM you are running... you know, that little dance you do everytime you want to game inside a VM.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes they are not... we run the Nvidia drivers unmodified. Only thing we have done is make the guest driver think it's running on the host, talking to the host's GPU kernel.
It works really well with a ~2% performance penalty. Nvproxy by google/gvisor has been doing this for years.
You should try running it yourself and see how it goes :D
Comment · 1 month ago
We encode with Vulkan Video, then stream to the client using QUIC. This is part of the larger project: Nestri [1] which is currently a work-in-progress.
[1] https://github.com/nestrilabs/nestri
Nesbox is just a VMM, a component of the whole stack.
Comment · 1 month ago
Virtio? what virtio? virtio native drm native context, is that what you mean? We actually use it in nesbox[1] for AMD/Intel cards.
Venus is the only one we could directly compare to, as it is the only one that supports Nvidia GPUs. vDRM works only on AMD/Intel GPUs and has a similar performance (~98% baremetal performance) to virtio-nvgpu.
Comment · 1 month ago
No not yet, but that is in the roadmap.
Comment · 1 month ago
We borrowed a lot of the architectural design from nvproxy, then built it to support graphical workloads. Plus it is reusable in such a way you can hot plug it into any microVM, cloud-hypervisor, maybe even Firecracker
Comment · 1 month ago
The benefit is that you do not have a limit to how many VMs you can run at the same time. However, virtio-nvgpu has no Windows support as of yet, please check back in a while :)
You should check out Nestri [1], another project we are working on, that helps you do exactly that. It helps run multiple gaming sessions for you and your friends on the same GPU, without anyone meddling in the other person's session. Everyone gets to stream their game to whatever desktop or device they want. It is still a work-in-progress though.
Comment · 1 month ago
My bad, i am not a native English speaker... I did my best to try and brush it up. Terribly sorry if it did not match your flow.