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I've been out of the loop for some years, could you eli5 for me please?
SR-IOV allows you to share your GPU among many virtual machines in much the same way that you are able to share a single CPU among many VMs
Thanks for the info. I guess that's not that essential for gaming but more for AI specific tasks?
Not really ai specifically but VMs. Maybe you want a Windows vm for gaming with a gpu, just give it a slice and it's fine. Maybe you want lots of VMs for all various different office clients, split off sections of the gpu and you can have a bunch of hardware accelerated thin clients
I've never thought about that, but it makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!