Adobe Prem in Vmware
August 5th, 2016
I have a Adobe Premier on VMware running fast on SSD.
somehow I can’t turn ” mercury playback engine gpu acceleration” .
is there is a way to do so ?
please advise.
You would have to use a hypervisor that support virtual gpu’s which isn’t easy, Look into native vhd boot https://technet.microsoft.com/en-ie/library/hh824872.aspx
are you Saying ESXI 6.0 is not supporting it ?
are you Saying ESXI 6.0 is not supporting it ?
Yes ESXi 6.0 supports GPU passthrough which is what you would need to use. What is referring to is Microsoft’s version of virtualization. Not looking to turn this into a debate over which is better but I would stick with vmware as they are leaps and bounds ahead of the curve when it comes to virtualization.
To accomplish what you want with ESXi you will need 2 video cards. 1 for the host and 1 for the VM running Adobe Premier (unless you have some sort of IPMI/KVM setup for accessing the host). Then you dedicate the other video card, via the GPU passthrough settings on the host, to the VM so that is has direct access to utilize the card as dedicated hardware instead of virtualized hardware. Which, in turn, should allow you to turn on “mercury playback engine gpu acceleration”.
However, this is the part which may suck. Vmware has been moving more and more towards server grade hardware support only. They’ve cut a lot of support and drivers for consumer based hardware around V5.1. Then they cut even more in V5.5 and so on. So you will really need to do your homework making sure your hardware such as motherboard, CPU and GPU are supported in the first place. Specifically IOMMU for AMD based and VT-d for Intel based systems. If the motherboard and CPU doesn’t support those in the first place then you won’t be able to do passthrough of the GPU to the VM.
Here’s a hardware compatibility list for ESXi which is now called vSphere.
http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
are you Saying ESXI 6.0 is not supporting it ?
I thought you were using workstation sorry.
I managed to Passthrough the NVIDIA GT218 it detected by the VM , but somehow cant get the driver installed and running .
its gives up error Code 40
any suggestions how to get this working ?
For whatever reasons, nvidia cards don’t work well with passthrough. They work fine as shared hardware but in passthrough something about them fails. I’ve seen lots of people have the same issues and even I had a couple of old GT210s that I could never get to work in passthrough. Bought a cheap AMD HD5450 and it worked first try.
So its possible to share GPU over the RDP ?
So its possible to share GPU over the RDP ?
No, what I meant by shared was shared with the host and VMs. You have 1 physical card for the host then it shares or emulates the hardware for VMs. The nvidia cards work for that purpose of generic shared or emulated hardware but they don’t always work when it comes to hardware passthrough and dedicating it to a VM.
Thank you .
so if we use ATI or different GPU for passthrough it could work?
Yes your chances are better with ATI but not always guaranteed. Take a look at this link for known tested GPUs that work in passthrough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IOMMU-supporting_hardware#Tested_graphics_card
A $30 HD5450 worked fine in passthrough mode in my home ESXi 5.5 when I tested it. But I haven’t gotten around to trying 6.0 yet.