RE: [PROPOSAL] Support GPU/VGPU in VMWare/XenServer

[Sanjay Tripathi <sa...@citrix.com>]

Hi all,

This is the first draft of the functional spec:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/GPU+and+vGPU+support+for+CloudStack+Guest+VMs

Will keep updating it based on the feedback.

--Sanjay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sanjay Tripathi [mailto:sanjay.tripathi@citrix.com]
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 5:46 PM
> To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org
> Subject: [PROPOSAL] Support GPU/VGPU in VMWare/XenServer
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It is increasingly common for servers to come with graphic cards that have
> multiple GPUs. Admin would like to leverage this and be able to dedicate
> GPU to user VMs that have high graphic processing requirements. For
> example, Auto-Cad applications, games.
> 
> This feature will enable the support of GPU and VGPU on XenServer and
> further extend it to support VMWARE. With GPU support, admin can
> dedicate a GPU card to a VM and in case of VGPU, multiple VMs can share
> the same GPU card.
> 
> The Jira ticket for this feature can be found at:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4761
> And the tasks associated with this features are:
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4760
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4762
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK-4763
> 
> I am working on FS and will share it shortly.
> 
> --Sanjay
>