PVE-Intel-vGPU

Another advantage of Intel GPU is vGPU SR-IOV, while consumer video cards of NVIDIA and AMD didn't support it. But even the integrated GPU of N100, N97 support it[1], Therefore I can install Proxmox VE and run multiple VMs, assigning a vGPU to each of them a for video transcoding (IPCam NVR), AI and other applications. https://github.com/Upinel/PVE-Intel-vGPU

The SR-IOV part is the most exciting for me[0]. Often times SR-IOV comes up in the context of high-performance virtualization networking[1]. I'm keen to leverage it for hardware-video accelleration for multiple VMs. There's been a lot of speculation about it for newer Intel GPUs[2], partly fueled by the support Intel added for their iGPUs begining with Alder Lake[3]. I'm a little confused by how the article worded this. The paragraph ending with "and also will support SR-IOV" begins by discussing the Arc Pro B60, so I'm not sure if that feature is specific to the B60 or if it's the whole Arc Pro B-Series. I guess we'll find out in 2025Q4. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-root_input/output_virtu... [1] https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/products/ethe... [2] https://forum.level1techs.com/t/intel-arc-sr-iov-hack/200804 [3

> Xe2, Intel is looking to use the same graphics architecture across their product stack.. integrated GPUs as a springboard into the discrete GPU market. Linux support for Xe2 and power management will take time to mature, https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d... Xe SR-IOV improves VM graphics performance. Intel dropped Xe1 SR-IOV graphics virtualization in the upstream i915 driver, but the OSS community has continued improvement in an LTS fork, making steady progress, https://github.com/strongtz/i915-sriov-dkms/commits/master/ & https://github.com/Upinel/PVE-Intel-vGPU?tab=readme-ov-file.