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Hey, I'm the co-creator of LibVF.IO and the GVM project. I'd love to hear what you think about our latest release where we added support for GVM components in LibVF.IO.

Side note: We also added in support for Libvirt by allowing users to install standalone GVM components via ./scripts/install-standalone-gvm-components.sh.

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To be honest with you I am extremely excited by what you are working towards, but utterly beyond confusion when it comes to the GPU virtualization landscape. The walls that vendors have built in this area in their attempt to artificially segment "consumer" and "professional" are shameful. NVidia in particular has been reprehensible. I wish more people cared. Thank you!

Thanks for your kind words! We're all virtualization users ourselves so I definitely get what you mean - we started this project because we wanted to help people to get access to the magic at home using the hardware they already have! I will say though that Nvidia has done a lot towards improving their support for open source. While it might be a bit of an uncommon take in my view many of the folks who probably are most passionate about bringing exciting GPU technology to the world work at Nvidia. :)

Gigachad Arthur

https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO

https://docs.linux-gvm.org/

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Awesome project!

And I gotta say thats some pretty code for dealing with a bunch of sysfs stuff: https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/blob/master/src/libv...

Thanks!! We do our best to keep the code as clean/readable as possible. The first version was a bit of a mess but we rewrote it again clean slate to improve over the first implementation. :)

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