23 Jan
2015
23 Jan
'15
12:32 p.m.
On 23 January 2015 at 12:06, Darren Williams D.Williams2@bradford.ac.uk wrote:
Using VM's was a suggestion I put forward but some of our staff didn't like the idea!
*sigh* technology politics is annoying. good luck with that.
We can't virtualise Windows as we run many CAD and Media app's that require high end graphics card utilisation.
Yes you can with PCI passthrough.
In fact, if your processors, motherboards and graphics cards support VT-d then your graphics card can be shared across upto 12 virtual machines. Standard PCI passthrough has been supported for quite a while in the KVM stack.
I know a lot of design people that use virtualised design environments on chunky servers sat in racks. Its quite easy to set up for a basic implementation.