Virtualisation on the Graphics Card with NVIDIA

So even the graphics card is now virtualised! Surely this has great opportunities to VDI solutions ultimately.

So how do you virtualise the Graphics Card? Well there are three stages to it:

1. A Chipset that provides I/O virtualisation technologies
2. A hypervisor that can support them
3. A graphics card that can handle multiple requests from multiple virtual machines at a single time.
   

Currently this is supported by:

• Intel (Xeon 5500 series,codenamed Nehalem with Intel VT-d technology)
• NVIDIA announced the SLI Multi-OS technology contained with the new Quadro FX3800, 4800 and 5800 cards
• Parallels announced an impending release of a new edition of Workstation capable of supporting Intel-VT and NVIDIA Multi-OS

Should be an interesting product moving forward in the VDI space.