Xen Nvidia Driver For Mac
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Nearly six weeks after the release of macOS Mojave, web drivers for Nvidia graphics cards released in 2014 and later remain unavailable for the latest operating system, resulting in compatibility. Manually update NVIDIA GeForce graphics drivers in macOS All graphics driver updates come from Apple in macOS software updates so you really shouldn’t need to update them manually (the one exception is the Mac Pro which is the only Mac model to have user upgradeable graphics cards).
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I would like to be able to use a hypervisor, such as XenServer and use it with my MacBook Pro. Would it be possible to install Xen, setup my VMs using another machine for the install, then setup GPU passthrough of the dedicated GPU to the host laptop display. Then be able do any later configuration of Xen using a different machine. Please no comments about Apple.
I chose this machine because it is powerful, light, thin and well built. Perfect for a lot of traveling. I would love to get some feedback from someone who has tried this with a laptop, especially on a mac based laptop. The goal is to only have one system to carry around, with my VMs running on the Host Display!! Late 2014 MBP i7 16GB DDRL Dual Gigabit NICs via Thunderbolt (not daisy chained) Integrated Intel GPU Dedicated Nvidia GPU I have no intentions of running OSX. Just Windows, Debian and Docker Containers. Not sure that is relevant but, it came up, so I'll be clear.
VMware., Virtualbox and so on work great, but have a lot of overhead, and don't have the direct hardware access I am looking for. I haven't heard of doing such a thing outside of a purpose built desktop. The GPUs that isn't in use on a Mac gets switched off.
Seems unlikely that you could use both at once. And that's assuming there was a hypervisor that supported Mac hardware completely. You may be out of luck as you picked your hardware without seeing if it was even compatible with what you wanted to do. That, and isn't for your neat hardware/software hacking for something no sane sysadmin would run in production. Your best bet is probably Linux and KVM for this. You have what really amounts to four options, as you've been told by multiple professionals in the field you're over complicating this needlessly.
You run OSX and VMware (Type 2 Hypervisor). This is your simplest and smartest bet.
Just do this. Your perceived 'overhead' is NOTHING compared to driver optimizations/abstractions and a myriad number of other issues. Hardware compatibility on a macbook pro in other OS's is no small thing. similar arrangement as above but use Windows 8/10 with hyperv installed. 3D stuff in windows.
Debian/docker in linux VMs. They'll run just fine. Run Server 2012r2 with Hyper-V role and desktop experience role installed. Technically, this should work using the boot camp drivers. Hyper-V is a true Type 1 Hypervisor.
You can run Debian/Centos/Whatever in Hyper-V Vm's and access them locally via console. Since debian/docker should have no need of direct GPU access, this should work. Windows Server is also not optimized for mobile hardware/thermals/power saving as far as I understand. I can't see any benefit to this setup over 1a above. Linux + KVM - Ironically, this is the only situation that I really don't suggest and the only one I know of that comes close to what you want. If you weren't doing this on a macbook and were building a setup just for this purpose?
You could boot into Linux and execute, say, a windows VM that has direct and exclusive access to the GPU you need for 3D. By all accounts this works well.
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It's not gonna work on the macbook pro out of the box or easily (doing it on a desktop with known working hardware is nasty enough). Linux is also going to do somewhat poorly in the battery/thermals department as well as common issues with wifi reliability etc. In the quest for some direct access to hardware due to perceived hypervisor overhead you've completely over complicated the setup and situation.
You overestimate the resources 'wasted' by the host OS - not to mention, you're running an OS no matter what. Might as well run a full one. Assuming you have the proper CPU virtualization extensions, you should not see much of a difference AND you should more than make up for it in system reliability and simplicity. Also, the BIGGEST problem to me is this - direct GPU access is a fickle and relatively new thing. It's a big enough pain in the ass to 3D accelerate a VM in a completely supported environment (Say, Windows 10 Hyper-V, or Windows running Virtualbox, or KVM.whatever) - stick to a well supported product and you'll be happier.
OSX + Virtualbox is my vote. If you hack something together though, please share. I've been playing with VMs and administering them in production for years and I always love seeing a new hack or solution pieced together. The 'solution' itself was unwieldy and functioned poorly.
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It was a solution without a problem. 10 years earlier and it would have worked. But being that it is just a xen hypervisor with built in windows manager. It is very simple to add drivers etc. I have seen heavily customized versions floating around, supporting tons of more hardware. That being said, I only mentioned it as a possible solution to his exotic 'problem'. I would think that if he was dead set on going this route, xenclient puts him 98% of the way there.
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