Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest

WanjohiRyan 54 points 20 comments September 24, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (6 comments)

mcmatterson

Amazing project! But man, that README is just a textbook example of LLM word salad. It's wild how these tools are so incredibly capable at many things, but their writing sticks out like a sore thumb

majorchord

Can this be used with a Windows guest?

markasoftware

How is this different than gVisor's nvproxy? https://gvisor.dev/docs/user_guide/gpu/#compatibility Edit: nvproxy is mentioned as the "direct inspiration" in the readme without mention of how this is different or why it doesn't use nvproxy as a backend.

hacker_homie

What are the isolation implications?

orphereus

Why not use normal GPU passthrough? I don't see how you can use this to share a GPU between multiple VMs, so what is the benefit of using this software over normal GPU passthrough with vfio-pci drivers?

Datagenerator

Does it work under OpenStack?

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