Can I mine from a virtual machine Ubuntu while using my 6990's hardware?

the title should say (ask) it already. But, here is the replay:
Is it possible to set up a virtual machine with for instance Ubuntu and run the 6990 hardware on that?
Thanks for your answers.

 

True, but this is hardly a workable solution since any PCI drivers can fail in the VM for a number of reasons with this. The Amazon EC2 cloud (which runs a modified Xen) offers physical machines, not VMs, for GPU cluster rental (seehttp://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/). If there was a way to slice GPU power within VMs, I would think Amazon would have done that.

 

 

Yes indeed, in fact I've done it and it works fine. Since GPU mining does not really impact the CPU and the memory, I have set up a machine running Ubuntu, a miner and VMWare player with my Windows Server as a VM (before the whole physical machine was dedicated to the Windows Server).

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