pci passthrough: add example for functions

[pve-docs.git] / qm-pci-passthrough.adoc

diff --git a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
index 43b9ddcd38c5fd3a1c65ae4b3fac2d67e91094e3..7e00e2e531529b1572b380e8b2d83de02c57b7dd 100644 (file)
--- a/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
+++ b/qm-pci-passthrough.adoc
@@ -128,6 +128,21 @@ For this add  the following line in a file ending with `.conf' file in
 Please be aware that this option can make your system unstable.
 ====
 
+Notes for GPU passthrough
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+When passing through a GPU (be it a full device, or a vGPU), if you want to use
+it for displaying, you have to either physically connect a monitor to the
+card (if possible), or configure a remote desktop software (e.g., VNC, RDP)
+inside the guest and use that.
+
+It is not possible to display the content of the GPU via NoVNC/SPICE on the
+{pve} web interface.
+
+If you want to use the GPU for things like OpenCL or CUDA, this is not an issue,
+since the application should be able to choose the hardware without using
+it as a display.
+
 Host Device Passthrough
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -177,8 +192,8 @@ configuration, for example by executing:
 # qm set VMID -hostpci0 00:02.0
 ----
 
-If your device has multiple functions, you can pass them through all together
-with the shortened syntax ``00:02`'
+If your device has multiple functions (e.g., ``00:02.0`' and ``00:02.1`'),
+you can pass them through all together with the shortened syntax ``00:02`'
 
 There are some options to which may be necessary, depending on the device
 and guest OS: