you simply tell the xen manager to grab that specific item ( so the domain0 Linux doesn't grab it with a Linux driver ), then make the specific userdomain VM you WANT to have it, have it.

People do this to enable gaming-Windows VMs, *while* having a separate video-card for Linux/work...

http://www.xen.org/ read the manual!

Want to give a teraflop GPU to Windows, while running a linux render-node on your same machine?

Quad-opteron, give Windows 2 sockets of CPUs, keep 2 for Linux, stuff the system with RAM, divide the RAM however you want ( giving the RAM attached to 2 sockets is *sane*, however ), and voila:

2 OSs, 1 box, all the power you could want.

summed up in four words. 'have lots of money.' so what else is new??

Does this mean we can get GPU accelerated virtual machines?

I'm excited!

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of the cards isn't really an issue for most professionals. I, for one, run multiple workstations -each running one program -they all need to have a solid graphics card. Shuffling all those cards into one machine actually reduces the cost. You still need, however, lots of screen real estate -lots of monitors -so no hope for shrinking the desk then. I've heard about these new ultra high rez screens though. One of those 50" monsters powered by four cards say, let you have four pieces of software running in four "windows" on the big screen -all on one computer with copy paste intact. Now that. That sounds like my next purchase. Gonna need a big gig to pay for that though...