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title: Virtual Function I/O Mediated devices (vfio-mdev)
description: Create and Configure Virtual Function I/O Mediated devices (vfio-mdev)
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date: 2022-07-23T10:33:04.565Z
date: 2022-07-24T16:37:28.365Z
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dateCreated: 2022-07-21T21:10:41.046Z
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# Configure Virtual Function I/O Mediated devices (vfio-mdev)
# Configure Virtual Function I/O Mediated devices
Virtual Function I/O Mediated devices (vfio-mdev) allows you to split your a compatible GPU into multiple virtual GPUs (vGPUs). These vGPUs can then be assigned to a virtual machine.
Virtual Function I/O Mediated devices (vfio-mdev) allows you to split a compatible GPU into multiple virtual GPUs (vGPUs). These vGPUs can then be assigned to a virtual machine, just as real GPUs.
> These instructions only cover Intel GPUs that are compatible with vfio-mdev (5th to 9th-10th generation). Intel Xe Graphics (12th generation and onward) do not support vfio-mdev but SR-IOV.
> These instructions only cover Intel GPUs that are compatible with vfio-mdev (5th to 10th generation). Since generation 11th, Intel graphics do not support vfio-mdev but SR-IOV.
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## Preparation
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## Create a virtual GPU
Upon reboot, you should then be able to list available GPUs using the `mdevctl` command.
* List available virtual GPUs
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Description: low_gm_size: 64MB, high_gm_size: 384MB, fence: 4, resolution: 1024x768, weight: 2
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* You may need to increase GPU aperture size, or memory, if there is no available instance
* You may need to increase GPU aperture size if there is no available instance.
The `i915-GVTg_V5_4` kind seems to offer the best trade-offs between the available resolution and the number of available instances.
In this case, the `i915-GVTg_V5_4` kind seems to offer the best trade-offs between the available resolution and the number of available instances.
* Generate unique id
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## Remove any video device
* Remove any video device
* Remove any video device, such as virtio-gpu. Or pick `none`.
## Resources
* Official page: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.html
* Official page for vfio-mdev: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/driver-api/vfio-mediated-device.html
* Archlinux's entry on Intel GVT-g: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_GVT-g