GPU Passthrough For FreeBSD's Bhyve Can Work But Is Fairly Rudimentary

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GPU Passthrough For FreeBSD's Bhyve Can Work But Is Fairly Rudimentary

FreeBSD's Bhyve hypervisor has had a wild ride over the past half-decade of development for advancing BSD virtualization support. Bhyve is mostly used on the server front but can also fill some desktop use-cases now that there is GPU pass-through support working albeit not yet polished...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Bhyve-GPU-Passthrough-2019

[kpedersen]

This is really useful since so much Linux desktop crap requires GPU acceleration to function. Linux in a VM or remotely is getting pretty broken without it.

[k1e0x]

It's cool to see. It's a nice platform. Bhyve is a very thin hypervisor that supports very little emulation at all and ZFS ZVOLS make a great virtual disk platform. I hope this can be improved.

[flower]

I don't understand why it offers only 60% Performance. I guess this article talks about gpu performance?

May someone enlighten me?

[danboid]

This is really useful since so much Linux desktop crap requires GPU acceleration to function. Linux in a VM or remotely is getting pretty broken without it.

Why is it useful if Linux desktop stuff is "crap"? It's one or the other.