On 6/5/19 9:47 AM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 05:28:44AM -0700, sagar acharya wrote:
>> Dear Marek, it would be fantastic if PCI passthrough becomes trivial in 
>> qubes R4.1. Using graphic cards is so central in games and computation 
>> intensive things on GPU. Having it in dom0 and not contained in other VMs 
>> made me switch back to another OS.
> 
> Simple PCI passthrough works well. The problematic case if for GPU,
> which in practice are very non-standard PCI devices, with a lot of
> vendor-specific quirks. Anyway yes, making it work reliably is on the
> roadmap, but may not be fully ready in R4.1.
> 
> 

What is the security status of GPU pass-through?  It would be amazing
if GPU pass-through could be a fully security-supported feature,
although I understand it might not be practical.  Most uses for GPU
pass-through are for games, which are not trusted at all.

If the security risks of (secondary) GPU pass-through could be
eliminated, it would be possible to have an “Allow this VM to use
hardware-accelerated graphics” checkbox in the GUI, which would be
awesome.  Obviously, I am only referring to GPUs that do *not* have
control over the monitor.

Sincerely,

Demi

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