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nestrilabs/virtio-nvgpu

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Rust

Covered in week 2026-W41 · the 2026-10 report

A virtio device for sharing one NVIDIA GPU across several VMs, at bare-metal speed.

What virtio-nvgpu is

virtio-nvgpu forwards the NVIDIA driver instead of the graphics API. The guest builds its own GPU commands and writes them straight to GPU memory, so a frame being drawn doesn't cross the VM boundary. Nothing gets serialized and replayed on the host the way Venus and virgl do it.

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07 Oct 2026 · 0:26
virtio-nvgpu: The Free Alternative to NVIDIA vGPU for KVM
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