Re: [vfio-users] hot-plug PCIe reassignment

2016-07-09 Thread Zycorax Tokoroa
Thanks, I guess that was just a nobbish question then.. I was also wondering about SLI/CF, as far as you know, as long the iommu groups are properly isolated, can one get sli/cf working by porting two identical GPUs on one guest, and occasionally reassign one of the GPUs to a second guest and run

Re: [vfio-users] hot-plug PCIe reassignment

2016-07-08 Thread Ryan Flagler
This is interesting. The Microsoft Surface book has a dgpu in the keyboard that can be attached/detached at will. Could be a combination of proprietary hardware/software though. On Fri, Jul 8, 2016, 9:53 PM Alex Williamson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:43 PM,

Re: [vfio-users] hot-plug PCIe reassignment

2016-07-08 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 8:43 PM, Kajim Shanti wrote: > Hi, > Since I heard there are some PCIe devices that are hot-pluggable, I was > wondering if it might work to cut off the power from a discrete graphic > card in order to reassign it among different VMs without having

[vfio-users] hot-plug PCIe reassignment

2016-07-08 Thread Kajim Shanti
Hi, Since I heard there are some PCIe devices that are hot-pluggable, I was wondering if it might work to cut off the power from a discrete graphic card in order to reassign it among different VMs without having to restart the host (and possibly the guests too?) Has anyone tried yet? Might it help