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hkassir72
hkassir72

Reputation: 141

Running CUDA on a virtual machine without a physical NVidia GPU card

Is it possible to run a CUDA program on a virtual machine without having a physical NVidia GPU card on the host machine?

PCIe passthrough is only viable if the host machine has an NVidia card and that's not available.

One possible option to run CUDA programs without a GPU installed is to use an emulator/simulator (ex: http://gpgpu-sim.org/ ) but these simulators are usually limited.

I would appreciate a clear answer on that matter. Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2744

Answers (1)

Robert Crovella
Robert Crovella

Reputation: 151849

You can't run any modern version of CUDA (e.g. 6.0 or newer) unless you have actual GPU hardware available on the machine or virtual machine.

The various simulators and other methods all depend on very old versions of CUDA.

Upvotes: 2

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