Intel GVT-g
https://01.org/sites/default/files/documentation/an_introduction_to_intel_gvt-g_for_external.pdf
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_GVT-g
only works with Intel Broadwell (5th gen) to Comet Lake (10th gen)
For Xe Architecture (Gen12) based GPUs, SR-IOV feature is needed instead.
lspci -v -s 00:02.0
https://download.01.org/gfx/repos/src/
https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads/intel-graphics-update-tool-linux-os-v2.0.5
wget https://download.01.org/gfx/RPM-GPG-GROUP-KEY-ilg
sudo apt-key add RPM-GPG-GROUP-KEY-ilg
apt install -y libgtk-3-0
apt --fix-broken install
https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/wiki/GVTg_Setup_Guide
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2017/01/virtual-gpu-support-landing-upstream/
CONFIG_DRM_I915_GVT
CONFIG_DRM_I915_GVT_KVMGT # KVMGT
CONFIG_DRM_I915_GVT_XENGT # XENGT
CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV
CONFIG_VFIO_MDEV_DEVICE
CONFIG_VFIO_IOMMU_TYPE1
cat .config | grep -P 'I915|VFIO|KVM'
lsmod | grep -P -i 'vfio|kvm|i915'
https://download.01.org/GVT-g/
For KVMGT, you also can use the current upstream Linux kernel and QEMU directly since all the enabling patches have been upstreamed.
https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/tree/gvt-staging/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gvt
https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/releases (~150MB)
git clone -b gvt-stable-4.12 https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux.git # >20G?
echo ""|make oldconfig
For XenGT, you must use the repositories we provided.
https://github.com/intel/Igvtg-xen/tree/xengt-stable-4.9/
https://github.com/intel/gvt-linux/wiki/GVTg_Setup_Guide#332-build-qemu--xen-for-xengt
git clone -b xengt-stable-4.9 https://github.com/01org/igvtg-xen # ~111MB
vi /etc/default/grub # KVMGT
i915.hvm_boot_foreground=1 i915.enable_gvt=1 kvm.ignore_msrs=1 intel_iommu=igfx_off drm.debug=0
ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:00\:02.0/mdev_supported_types/
V4 means it is "Broadwell" platform,
V5 means it is "Skylake" or "Kabylake" platform
vgpu_create="/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/mdev_supported_types/i915-GVTg_V5_4/create"
echo "a297db4a-f4c2-11e6-90f6-d3b88d6c9525" > $vgpu_create
ls /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/mdev_supported_types/i915-GVTg_V5_4/description
low_gm_size: 128MB
high_gm_size: 512MB
fence: 4
resolution: 1920x1200
weight: 4
/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:02.0/mdev_supported_types/i915-GVTg_V5_8/description
low_gm_size: 64MB
high_gm_size: 384MB
fence: 4
resolution: 1024x768
weight: 2
<os>
<loader readonly='yes' secure='no' type='rom'>/usr/bin/bios.bin</loader>
<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
<qemu:commandline>
<qemu:arg value='-device'/>
<qemu:arg value='vfio-pci,addr=05.0,sysfsdev=/sys/class/mdev_bus/0000:00:02.0/673475f6-cd28-11e7-9d1e-773e86af553a'/>
</qemu:commandline>
https://mpolednik.github.io/2017/05/21/vfio-mdev/
Since 3.2.0
<devices>
<hostdev mode='subsystem' type='mdev' model='vfio-pci'>
<source>
<address uuid='673475f6-cd28-11e7-9d1e-773e86af553a'/>
</source>
</hostdev>
https://libvirt.org/drvnodedev.html#MDEV (Since 3.4.0)
# workaround "error: cannot load AppArmor profile"
/etc/libvirtd/qemu.conf
security_driver = "none"
# workaround 'error opening /dev/vfio/#: Permission denied'
sudo aa-complain /usr/sbin/libvirtd
sudo aa-complain /etc/apparmor.d/libvirt/libvirt-*
git clone -b stable-2.9.0 https://github.com/intel/Igvtg-qemu.git # ~184MB
apt-get install -y libsdl2-dev libpixman-1-dev libspice-server-dev
qemu-system-x86_64 --version
https://www.openstack.org/assets/presentation-media/Enable-GPU-virtualization-in-OpenStack.pdf
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