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Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 1 story, 17 comments · first 2021-04-09 · latest 2024-06-06

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  1. …is by forcing data centers to pay an inflated price for hardware that is similar to consumer GPUs: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
    comment by akamaka · 2024-06-06 · in U.S. clears way for antitrust inquiries of Nvidia, Microsoft and OpenAI
  2. …about people unlocking their NVIDIA GPUs to allow the nested virtualization. --- Edit: here it is https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
    comment by denysvitali · 2024-05-19 · in Show HN: Open-source GeForce NOW alternative with Stadia's social features
  3. This isn’t even the first time a hacked driver has been used to unlock some HW feature - https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
    comment by bpye · 2024-04-12 · in Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P
  4. …data centre sales. [0] - https://edc.intel.com/content/www/us/en/design/ipla/software... [1] - https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
    comment by bpye · 2022-11-18 · in QEMU Hardware accelerated h264/h265 video encoding added to VirGL
  5. The vGPU feature can be unlocked for several Nvidia GPUs: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock I did not yet try it myself (maybe it doesn't even work anymore?), and it might not be an option for businesses.
    comment by archi42 · 2022-08-14 · in Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?
  6. …by breaking patterns such as this one rather than try to compete exclusively on performance. [1]: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
    comment by Hamcha · 2022-07-22 · in LTT showcases A770 with some performance data, price estimate [video]
  7. …locked out in non enterprise-grade hardware (although they can sometime be unlocked, for example: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock ).
    comment by gpderetta · 2022-02-01 · in Bottles – Run Windows software and games on Linux
  8. …dies. However, limitations enforced just by the driver and its FW set: - GPU virtualisation (see: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock ) - NVENC video encoder limitations to 2 simultaneous streams on customer cards - Lite Hash Rate…
    comment by my123 · 2021-12-18 · in “With those changes we're up to a 94% pass rate for dEQP-GLES2”
  9. Anyone interested in this setup try this if you have NVIDIA? https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock Looks like it can enable a virtual GPU so you don't need to actually use 2 GPUs, but I haven't tried it, it looks pretty cool if you only…
    comment by GhettoComputers · 2021-11-20 · in Installing Windows and Linux into the same partition
  10. …across it trying to find a replacement to the deprecated RemoteFX vGPU and am out of my depth. [1] https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
    comment by kipchak · 2021-10-21 · in Show HN: vGPU and SR-IOV on consumer GPUs
  11. …a the vgpu unlocker for consumer graphic cards (so u can split a gpu in multiple virtual gpus) https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock And merges it with the GeForce drivers so the host gpu does not stop having display output And I just…
    comment by gallexme · 2021-10-10 · in Nix-GUI: Make NixOS usable for non-technical users through settings / GUI
  12. https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
    comment by thegeekpirate · 2021-09-11 · in Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux
  13. …the whole GPU, that works out of the box on NVIDIA cards. (btw, for some NV cards, there is: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock to crack that protection)
    comment by my123 · 2021-09-11 · in Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI
  14. …. Side-note : vfio-mdev can now be unlocked on consumer-grades Nvidia cards too : https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock . Sadly, it is not possible for AMD-cards. By the way, I am working on Phyllome OS ( https://phyllo.me/ ), which is a
    comment by luzeal · 2021-07-18 · in Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance
  15. …GPU (as well as the host, on only one set of outputs), to my knowledge still requires this hack ( https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock); this is specifically what I'm referring to and is really the only workable solution as it's the…
    comment by qball · 2021-06-20 · in State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
  16. it's in the source https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock/blob/0675b563acdae8...
    comment by broodbucket · 2021-04-10 · in Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs
  17. If anyone needs a list of currently supported CPUs, you can find it in the source code: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock/blob/master/vgpu_un... (the comments behind the device ids)
    comment by Sebb767 · 2021-04-09 · in Vgpu_unlock: Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs