VMware: How to directly access the GPU

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I have VMware Workstation running on Ubuntu host with a Ubuntu Guest. Is it possible to directly access the GPU from the VM? I want to run CUDA on the VM

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It isn't unless nVidia provides a VMware-compatible paravirtualized driver for that purpose. This discussion on the nVidia forums explains why. Now, newer CPUs and chipsets support "IOMMU", which could serve the similar function as "PCI-E passthroug…

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