Updated info on virtualized host support?

[Deutschmann__Frank]

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

[Loc_N_Intel]

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.