ROCK-Kernel-Driver VS vgpu_unlock

Compare ROCK-Kernel-Driver vs vgpu_unlock and see what are their differences.

ROCK-Kernel-Driver

AMDGPU Driver with KFD used by the ROCm project. Also contains the current Linux Kernel that matches this base driver (by ROCm)

vgpu_unlock

Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs. (by DualCoder)
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ROCK-Kernel-Driver vgpu_unlock
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279 4,264
2.2% -
9.5 0.0
18 days ago about 1 year ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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ROCK-Kernel-Driver

Posts with mentions or reviews of ROCK-Kernel-Driver. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-19.
  • what are the latest amd gpu drivers
    1 project | /r/pop_os | 9 Jun 2023
  • How AMD is Fighting NVIDIA with RDNA3 - Chiplet Engineering Explained
    1 project | /r/Amd | 21 Nov 2022
    No, just dangling documentation on the ROCm/HIP etc repos/sites, and the knowledge that all device DMA used to only support PCIe-a-like within the drivers/firmware, but as per that whitepaper above mentions a lot of effort was put into infinity fabric of CDNA2 so it would be very strange to use it for p2p. That the driver memory topology only recently enabled p2pDMA from what I have been following. This of course would require firmware (if not already there) and userspace to handle such a situation. Hence why I was asking for clearer source on MI250x specifically, and if it was recent.
  • Which distro feels most completed?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 2 Feb 2022
    Even if people refer to AMDGPU driver as AMD made, it is not AMD but guys from open source, this: https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCK-Kernel-Driver which also leads to this: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMDgpu_(Linux_kernel_module)#:~:text=Community%5Bedit%5D,libdrm%2C%20Xorg%2C%20Wayland#:~:text=Community%5Bedit%5D,libdrm%2C%20Xorg%2C%20Wayland). If i got that right. AMDGPU PRO driver is what is installed on Windows a proprietary driver which it seems is built upon AMDGPU open source but this one is signed by AMD... Witch got me thinking as AMD refusing to bring Radeon Software Center to Linux, seems like best thin for open source is to community and companies like Canonical, Rad Hat etc start builtin hardware for open software... a perfect mix of things?
  • There is now a dedicated wikipedia ROCm page :)
    3 projects | /r/ROCm | 19 Jan 2022
  • What is the situation for AMD GPU drivers on linux?
    1 project | /r/Amd | 14 Dec 2021
  • Official ROCm website now lists support for RDNA 2
    2 projects | /r/Amd | 1 Nov 2021
    Plus, if we're going to talk about stuff developers are sick of, how about releasing packages that are broken? https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCK-Kernel-Driver/pull/117 Kind of pointless to put up a release package if it's going to be obviously broken to this extent. In the end getting this to work still involved manually going in and patching things, both with the driver and then with the runtime libraries for tensorflow, making it not much better than dealing with NVIDIA. Even worse since this at least would've been caught in automated testing.
  • Corectrl doesn't have finer control?
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 24 Jan 2021
    https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/ROCK-Kernel-Driver/blob/roc-1.9.x/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_pm.c#L469

vgpu_unlock

Posts with mentions or reviews of vgpu_unlock. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-12.
  • Tinygrad: Hacked 4090 driver to enable P2P
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2024
    This isn’t even the first time a hacked driver has been used to unlock some HW feature - https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
  • Is there specific hardware to make passthrough GPU easier?
    1 project | /r/Proxmox | 27 May 2023
    Alternatively enable vGPU for the 2070 and use it for both Jellyfin LXC and Windows VM. https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock
  • GPU virtualization?
    3 projects | /r/kvm | 20 May 2023
    I'm on Linux and I'm running a 3070 Ti (Nvidia). I have always wanted to do GPU virtualization but because NVIDIA won't release vGPU for consumer card no one can do it without crossing legal red tape or problems with bricking your GPU. I did find this [https://github.com/jamesstringerparsec/Easy-GPU-PV] however it is only for windows, I found this [https://github.com/Arc-Compute/LibVF.IO/] and does not work with my GPU, and this [https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock] and can't get it to work. Done any one know an alternative on Linux that work just like this, overcoming these problems (on KVM)?
  • GPU pass-through/Sharing between multiple VMs
    1 project | /r/VFIO | 6 May 2023
    Otherwise, your only other option is the real hardware virtualization options that are available. NVIDIA's enterprise vGPU solution is for expensive compute cards however some have had good luck making vGPUs work on consumer NVIDIA cards with tools such as vgpu_unlock
  • SR-IOV with RTX 3090 Ti
    1 project | /r/Proxmox | 18 Apr 2023
    There was a hack to enable it on some consumer cards, but it’s not available on Ampere/30x0 cards: https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock/issues/8
  • Gaming PC for Proxmox
    1 project | /r/Proxmox | 12 Apr 2023
  • GPU virtualization, RTX 3000, Nvidia, and KVM?
    1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 7 Apr 2023
  • Hi, I need help building my VMware home-lab environment
    1 project | /r/vmware | 31 Mar 2023
  • cheap gpu for virtualization and stable diffusion
    1 project | /r/servers | 6 Mar 2023
  • GPU Passthrough
    4 projects | /r/Proxmox_BR | 29 Jan 2023
    Pci passthrough https://github.com/mbilker/vgpu_unlock-rs https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock https://github.com/DualCoder/vgpu_unlock/issues/91 https://gitlab.com/polloloco/vgpu-proxmox https://github.com/joeknock90/Single-GPU-Passthrough https://gitlab.com/YuriAlek/vfio#start-here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/b5xpua/the_ultimate_beginners_guide_to_gpu_passthrough/ https://forum.level1techs.com/t/single-gpu-passthrough-with-proxmox/113282/2 https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/problem-with-gpu-passthrough.55918/

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ROCK-Kernel-Driver and vgpu_unlock you can also consider the following projects:

radeon-profile - Application to read current clocks of ATi Radeon cards (xf86-video-ati, xf86-video-amdgpu)

Easy-GPU-PV - A Project dedicated to making GPU Partitioning on Windows easier!

ROCm - AMD ROCm™ Software - GitHub Home [Moved to: https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm]

nvidia-patch - This patch removes restriction on maximum number of simultaneous NVENC video encoding sessions imposed by Nvidia to consumer-grade GPUs.

LibVF.IO - A vendor neutral GPU multiplexing tool driven by VFIO & YAML.

OSX-KVM - Run macOS on QEMU/KVM. With OpenCore + Monterey + Ventura + Sonoma support now! Only commercial (paid) support is available now to avoid spammy issues. No Mac system is required.

vgpu_unlock-rs - Unlock vGPU functionality for consumer grade GPUs

vga-passthrough - Up to date (2021) reference for setting up a VGA passthrough on (Ubuntu) Linux.

Single-GPU-Passthrough

winapps - Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration.

.NET Runtime - .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

Proton - Compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components