This seems like the final technology in containing and categorizing different PC uses into different virtual machines, while still having good feel even in contained things. If set up right you can have a seamless experience tabbing between a host system and virtual system, and you can do whatever you can normally do in either one! Wanna use linux, but Discord hardly works and you like to play Halo too much to figure out how to dodge it’s anti-linuxcheat system? Now you can switch to linux and just run a single script to pull up a fully gaming capable (near bare metal performance) windows system right inside a linux system. Idk about y’all but as far as cool technology to talk about in here goes… this definitely fits for me. I feel like if more people knew this was something you could do relatively easily (if you enjoy tinkering with your OS) with MOST consumer Nvidia cards (20 series and older), Linux would’ve already passed 5%. What do y’all think about it? The ability to, off a single consumer CPU and GPU, host several acceptable, mid-performance, cloud accessible (or just virtually separate, locally accessible) PCs?

  • d3Xt3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Discord hardly works

    Wut? I use Discord in Linux (Nobara) and it works just fine, including activity detection and screen sharing. Sure, Discord on Linux had some limitations in the past, but that’s no longer an issue, assuming you’re using a decent gaming-optimised distro like Nobara.

    Linux would’ve already passed 5%

    Highly unlikely. The low market share is mainly because a) Linux does not come pre-installed on most computers - the vast majority of users just buy prebuilt computers and use whatever OS it came with and don’t tinker with their systems and b) most people like to use whatever system they’re familiar with and will not change unless they have a very very compelling reason for switching.

    In fact the only reason why the marketshare jumped recently is thanks to Steam Deck. If we want Linux numbers to go up, we need more systems like the Steam Deck, and more companies like Valve to work with upstream kernel and other projects to implement much needed features and accelerate development efforts.

    • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
      01·
      1 year ago

      On my Linux machine, I still can only get apps running on xwayland to show up in screen sharing. GUIs on Linux were a mistake, it’s a mess all around.

    • frog@programming.devOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Close, but that’s not what I mean. I mean SEAMLESS sharing, not playing tennis with it. Is it really so poorly known? Should I write up a little introduction to the parts of it that I’m familiar with?

  • ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That would be awesome if we have seamless passthrough, let alone making a GPU be sharable across two or more VMs accessible to mainstream.

    For now though its only available for enterprises, type 1 hypervisor and only for a limited set of hardware iirc.

    • frog@programming.devOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      That’s where you’d be wrong! I’m running it on my 1080ti right now. It can be hacked into working on just about any Nvidia card that’s recent enough to want to use it. A bit of a community has ended up growing around a group that makes patches for the official vGPU drivers, along with merge scripts, to give the hypervisor the ability to retain regular function (accelerated display out through the DP/HDMIs), while also fooling the vGPU part of the driver into thinking the random consumer card is supported. Unfortunately locked down on 30 series and newer :(, but it’s still a VERY cool use for a card like the 1080ti that has become VERY cheap

  • alphacyberranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Can anyone tell me if GPU pass through is available for any of the mainstream VM tools like VirtualBox, VMware on ubuntu or windows host? Last I checked, it was not possible. Has anything changed?

    • frog@programming.devOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      You can not just pass through, but share any1 gpu you like using HyperV. Yes it’s Win10Pro, but there are pleeeeenty of ways to get it enabled/installed/supported on Home as well. Though if you have an Nvidia card 20 series or older, and you’re willing to dive into linux as a dual boot, I’d say qemu/virt-manager is a pretty mainstream VM solution, and vGPU is also a good tech for the same purpose.

      1 I’m not actually sure what the limits on hyperv are but it seems fairly robust. Don’t quote me on it lol