Updated info on virtualized host support?

Deutschmann__Frank — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 22:06:47 GMT

I'm looking to install a Phi unit in my workstation which is a virtualized machine; it's running Linux / kvm as the hypervisor with multiple Linux and Windows vm's. The host machine is a current E5 system with full BIOS support for all the current virtualization features / functions, and the host fully supports large BAR addresses. I would like to use the Phi from both Linux and Windows vm's (not simultaneously).

Does anyone know if there are any issues with using a Phi in a virtualized environment? I found some posts here asking this same question, but the posts and discussion are all over a year old....

Thanks!

-frank

Hi Frank,

Loc_N_Intel — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:58:05 GMT

Hi Frank,

The BKM posted at https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/getting-kernel-based-virtual-machine-kvm-to-work-with-intel-xeon-phi-coprocessors discusses how to make the KVM to recognize the coprocessors. However, each coprocessor is allocated exclusively to a VM only. A coprocessor cannot be shared by two VMs.

Thank you.

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Updated info on virtualized host support?

Hi Frank,